By DPA
London : British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Thursday made a last-ditch appeal to Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf to lift the state of emergency as Commonwealth leaders were set to vote on a possible suspension of Pakistan from the grouping.
Speaking in London before his departure to the Commonwealth summit in Kampala, Uganda, Brown said that he had spoken to Musharraf late Wednesday and stayed in close touch with US President George W. Bush and other world leaders on the issue.
“We have co-operated closely with Pakistan on economic and political reform, counter-radicalisation and vital regional issues.
But President Musharraf is in no doubt of the strength of feeling in the international community about the curtailment of democratic freedoms,” said Brown.