:President Asif Ali Zardari held talks with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday, expected to include discussions tribal areas along the Afghan border.
Brown welcomed Zardari with a handshake on the steps of his Downing Street office in London.
British officials were tight-lipped about the talks, saying only that Zardari was on a private visit to the country.
But officials in Pakistan said that the pair were due to discuss the conflict with Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants in the northern tribal areas.
Zardari is on a visit to Britain for his daughter Bakhtawar's admission to the University of Edinburgh.
Pakistani state media said Zardari would hold talks in London on "the emerging situation on the troubled Pakistan-Afghanistan border."
Zardari will return to Pakistan on Thursday to address the joint sitting of parliament.
In a statement issued after Zardari's election victory, Britain's Foreign Office said: "We want to work with the government to support measures that promote stability, democracy and the rule of law and strengthen the democratic transition.
And it added: "The UK stands ready to assist the government in combating the shared threat of violent extremism and meeting the economic challenges they face.
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