The PM also mentioned plans of the British police to question the sole surviving terrorist Ajmal Ahmed Qasab about the recent attrocities at the Mumbai attack.
Government sources said questioning the soul surviving terrorist Ajmal Ahmed Qasab wasn’t just triggered due to the death of one British national at the attacks.
Infact, it would also help Scotland Yard to track down other terrorist organisations responsible for the attack.
However, the Pakistani President Asif Zardari hasn’t yet given any guarantees when asked about the attempts of the UK police to track down terrorist organisations in the country.
Sources say that Asif Zardari confirmed they are cooperating with Mumbai to track down terrorists.
Earlier he said, “Terrorism and extremism is a common problem which requires collaborative efforts. Problems are not specific to one country.”
Pakistan also mentioned that they would respond when the Indian government shared more details about the attack. Pakistan blamed the Indian government of invading it’s airspace.
The pressure from the international community to clamp down on terrorism has led Prime Minister Gordon Brown to undertake a trip to India and Afghanistan.
The tour happened in the wake of atrocities in the province of Helmand, where the four royal marines were killed in an incident involving a child bomber.
This insured that Afghanistan should also take a long hard look at it’s borders.
According to the BBC, Mr Brown said: “Our aim must be to work together to do everything in our power to cut off terrorism, so I have proposed to President Zardari a new UK-Pakistan pact against terror.”
The tension between the two neighbouring countries has been a long standing one based on religion, history and other political reasons.
The name Pakistan was derived from an idea suggested by a Pakistani student who emphasized on having a separate homeland for the muslim majority in the north western frontier province.
The name Pakistan consists of P for Punjab, A for the Afghanis of the north-west frontier, K for Kashmir, S for Sind and Tan denoting Baluchistan. It also means pure in Urdu.
The partition of the subcontinent led to two major wars later one in 1965 and the other in 1971. This led to the creation of East Pakistan or Bangladesh as it is called now. An estimate of 1 million people died in the combat and several millions were left homeless as a result.
Therefore, Pakistan believes that Jammu and Kashmir should become a part of Pakistan because of it’s Muslim majority.
While India believes that the state belongs to the Indian subcontinent because during the accession of 1947 the Maharaja decided to join India.
The latest nuclear tests in both countries has triggered some protest.
