Pakistan's Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz arrived in London on Sunday to address a conference on aid and Asian development and will hold talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Monday, Blair's Downing Street office said, according to AP. Aziz, who flew into Heathrow airport from Islamabad on Sunday and did not speak to reporters, is also due to meet with Britain's finance minister Gordon Brown and foreign secretary Jack Straw. The prime minister is expected to discuss with Blair the deployment of an extra 3,300 British soldiers to Helmand, a southern Afghanistan province which borders Pakistan. Troops are arriving in the volatile province as part of an expanded NATO-led rebuilding and security mission. Aziz is also due to address the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a military think tank, on Tuesday, with a speech on regional stability. Blair and Aziz are due later on Monday to address the Asia 2015 conference, organized by Britain's Department of International Development.
