ISLAMABAD, May 11: British and Pakistani investigators are focusing on almost 200 phone calls made from Pakistan to one of the London bombers in a bid to uncover his links to Al Qaeda, security officials here said on Thursday.

One of the bombers may have also travelled to Waziristan, they said.

A British official report published on Thursday said two of the attackers, Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, were in Pakistan from November 2004 to February 2005 and likely had contacts with Al Qaeda and received “operational training”.

British Home Secretary John Reid told parliament after the release of the report that Khan and Tanweer are “likely to have met Al Qaeda figures” during their visit to Pakistan.

“There were a series of suspicious contacts from an unknown individual or individuals in Pakistan in the immediate run-up to the bombing: we do not know their content,” he said.—AFP