UK worried about terror threats linked to Pak

NEW DELHI: The UK’s intelligence and security service has said that terror threats linked to Pakistan continues to be the “primary area of concern”.

In a report that provides several details of Britain’s intelligence services, the committee headed by Labour MP Kim Howells said although threats linked to Pakistan remained the “primary area of concern”, about 15% of the security services/ work now related to East Africa and Somalia in particular, with a number of extremists visiting that country for training purposes.

The committee’s conclusion reflected Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s statement during a major foreign policy speech in November last year that nearly three-quarters of the most serious plots the security services were tracking in Britain had links to Pakistan. The committee said Britain faced a range of covert threats to its security and identified Al Qaeda as presenting “the most significant threat”.