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Gordon Brown meets India, Pakistan leaders
The British prime minister blamed militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba for last month's Mumbai attacks, as tensions between the neighbours reached new heights on Sunday.
- Agencies
- Published: 09:34 December 14, 2008
- Brown met with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss fighting terrorism and calming tensions with neighbouring Pakistan
- Image Credit: AP
Islamabad: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown blamed Pakistan militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba for last month's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, as tensions between the rival countries reached new heights on Sunday.
Brown made the comments ahead of meeting with Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in Islamabad.
"We also know that the group responsible (for the Mumbai attacks) is LET, and they have a great deal to answer for," Brown said.
He also pledged that his country will give Pakistan millions more in funding and technology to eradicate terrorism in the wake of the attacks.
He said the aid would include new scanning technology and some $9 million worth of assistance to help fight the causes of extremism and strengthen democracy.
Brown said three-quarters of the most serious terrorist plots investigated by the British authorities have links to Al Qaida in Pakistan.
Earlier on Sunday, Brown met with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss fighting terrorism and calming tensions with neighbouring Pakistan.
The two leaders had breakfast at Singh's residence as India tried to deconstruct the deadly Mumbai attacks that killed scores and has come under pressure to share intelligence information with its rival Pakistan.
They did not address the media after the meeting and officials on both sides did not immediately have details on the talks.
Singh later said India wanted good relations with Pakistan but again urged Islamabad to do more to stamp out militant groups operating on its soil.
"We want to normalise our relations with Pakistan," Singh told thousands of people at an election in the Kashmiri town of Khandroo.
"There are some people in Pakistan who are always trying to launch such bloody attacks," he said.
Britain is also expected to send investigators to India to interview the sole gunman captured following the attacks, said a British government official who spoke on condition of anonymity due to sensitivity of the subject. Victims of the assault included a British citizen and two other people with dual Indian-British nationality.
Brown arrived in India following a surprise visit to Afghanistan where he met with British soldiers and hinted Britain would provide more troops.
India blames a Pakistani-based militant group for the attacks last month that killed scores.
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