Cameron's inflammatory comments against Pakistan: I meant Pakistanis are terrorists..

[GUNNER]

David Cameron's ancestors helped suppress Indian mutiny

One of David Cameron’s ancestors helped suppress the Indian Mutiny, it has emerged.

By Heidi Blake

Just days after the Prime Minister won praise for his first visit to the subcontinent, it was disclosed that Mr Cameron’s great-great-grandfather was a British cavalryman who fought the Indians more than 150 years ago.

William Low left behind graphic accounts of how he slew rebels with his sabre and participated in a mass hanging of civilians during the two-year mutiny against British rule, which began in 1857.

The cavalryman also told how he came close to losing a hand and an ear in combat during the uprising, which is known in India as the first war of independence.

Mr Cameron has previously said that his ancestors were involved in “empire building” in India.

Had the full story of his great-great-grandfather’s involvement in suppressing the mutiny become public before Mr Cameron’s recent trip to the subcontinent, it could have caused diplomatic embarrassment.

The Prime Minister’s family tree was traced by the genealogist Nick Barratt, who worked on the BBC programme Who Do You Think You Are?

William Low was the grandfather of Sir William Mount, who married Elizabeth Llewellyn in 1929. The couple became Mr Cameron’s maternal grandparents.

In letters unearthed in the British Library by the Sunday Times, Low described how he mercilessly “cut down” the Indian rebels.

In one clash, his hand was cut to the bone and his ear was sliced open.

After another battle, the cavalryman wrote to his father, General Sir John Low: “The rebel infantry stood, but almost all their cavalry bolted. The result was that they were thoroughly beaten and dispersed, that upwards of 100 dead bodies were left on the field, while we lost but nine killed and wounded, two horses killed and seven wounded.

“Completely dispirited, the rebels then took themselves to their city, but the infantry were now well up and the place was, after considerable resistance, carried at the point of the bayonet, and the cavalry outside cutting up numbers of who endeavoured to escape. All the great man were captured and hung [sic].”

Downing Street declined to comment on Mr Cameron’s ancestry.

 

[javaman]

nthing wrong in his comments.whole world says this.

 

[TaimiKhan]

nthing wrong in his comments.whole world says this.

Another troll

If whole world says that then why not they attack us just like how US did that with Afghanistan or Iraq.

What is India waiting for ??


Don't come up with another troll statement or you will be thrown out for good.

Pathetic

15 hijackers of 9/11 were Saudi, whole world knows Saudi money is being used for terrorist operations around the world, AQ gets its maximum share of money from Oil money through its links in the Gulf, no one does or says anything about that.

Can't you people see the double faced hypocrisy of the world, but why would you as you people are one of those hypocrites also.

 

[RescueRanger]

nthing wrong in his comments.whole world says this.

Have your little limelight moment. The waltz will soon be over.

 

[mjnaushad]

nthing wrong in his comments.whole world says this.

Thats your mentality....No thought of your own. Just following what the "world" says..If the whole world says even the whole universe says a lie it will remain a lie.....Saying by whole world doesn't make it truth......

 

[GUNNER]

No surprise that Pakistan is ‘looking both ways’


Among some of the most-reported revelations to emerge from last week’s WikiLeaks classified document media feeding frenzy were allegations that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency has been collaborating with the Taliban.

For those who have closely covered the conflict in Afghanistan, this accusation is nothing new. For years now, the Hamid Karzai regime has been blaming all of Afghanistan’s woes on Pakistani interference.

As the insurgency has steadily strengthened and the security situation eroded, those international strategists responsible for directing the war effort have been quick to echo Karzai and point their own finger of blame across the Pakistani border. This is easier than to admit that they themselves mistakenly plunged the coalition forces into an unwinnable conflict.

Following the WikiLeaks revelations, British Prime Minister David Cameron took the opportunity to threaten Pakistan. "We cannot tolerate in any sense the idea that this country is allowed to look both ways and it is able in any way to promote the export of terror."

It may sound like tough talk, but when you factor in that the leaked documents were anywhere from seven months to four years out of date and, although just made public, had already been circulated to senior officials, Cameron’s statement was simply posturing to placate the masses.

Keen followers of the Afghanistan conflict will recall that up until the recent surge of U.S. troops, the Colonel Blimp commentators in Canada were constantly blaming our NATO allies for their failure to provide sufficient resources to ensure victory. However, now that NATO’s combined troop strength is over 150,000 soldiers deployed, that argument is no longer valid, and the violence continues to spiral out of control.

Another early excuse invoked to explain NATO’s failure to defeat the Taliban was that the insurgents were able to slip across the porous border into neighbouring Pakistan. "Close the border" became the battle cry of the armchair generals. However, once the spotlight war focused on the border itself it soon became clear that this would be no easy task.

The dividing line between Afghanistan and Pakistan was drawn arbitrarily on a map by British diplomat Henry Mortimer Durand in 1893. The intent was to delineate the British and Russian spheres of interest in central Asia. It is a topographically convenient foothill boundary, which indiscriminately divided the Pashtun tribes living on either side. The defiant Pashtun have never accepted the border, and the actual shape of the boundary has long been a subject of heated debate between the Pakistan and Afghanistan governments.

When the question of closing the border revealed itself to be yet another complex and convoluted challenge, the finger of blame swung back to the simplistic notion of blaming Pakistan in general and the ISI secret service in particular.

First of all, it is not difficult to make a historical link between the ISI and Afghan Islamic fundamentalist fighters. When they were striving to destabilize the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, the CIA had happily used Pakistan’s ISI to act as its conduit to arm and equip the Afghan mujahedeen. The Americans demonstrated a similar level of hypocrisy when they demonised Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for using chemical weapons, which they sold to him, against his own Kurdish rebels. But I digress.

There is no question that Pakistan has serious internal political, economic and security challenges of its own. That instability has only been exacerbated over the past decade by major vacillations in U.S. foreign policy.

When Gen. Pervez Musharraf seized power in a military coup in 1999, U.S. president Bill Clinton’s administration decried this reversal of democracy in Pakistan and actively supported the opposition. Post 9-11, George Bush saw in Musharraf a strong man and a U.S. ally in the war against terror.

By 2007, public outcry forced Musharraf to rescind his presidential power and agree to elections. The dramatic assassination of prime ministerial candidate Benazir Bhutto in December 2007 plunged Pakistan into political chaos once again.

Since the elections in 2008, Bhutto’s widower, Asif Ali Zardari, and son have shared the leadership of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party.

Despite popular claims from Western leaders that Pakistan has been "looking both ways" in this conflict, their armed forces have fought a number of major offensives against the Pashtun border tribes. In clashes to eliminate Taliban strongholds and keep open vital NATO supply routes, Pakistan security forces have lost 3,117 killed and 6,500 wounded since September 2001. The terror tactics employed by the Taliban in revenge attacks have killed an estimated 7,600 civilians throughout Pakistan.

Since 2004, the Pakistan government has negotiated a total of four separate armistices with the Taliban, with each successive ceasefire terminating in renewed violence.

In 2011 or shortly thereafter, most NATO troops will be leaving Afghanistan. Whatever happens between now and then, Pakistan doesn’t have the option of packing up and going home. Is it any wonder that they would consider hedging their bets?


Scott Taylor is an author and editor of Esprit de Corps magazine.

 

[SMC]

nthing wrong in his comments.whole world says this.

Yet more high overestimation by indians. It's only the whole india that says this. Maybe Afghanistan. Outside that, people aren't as concerned about WoT as you like to think.

 

[deepak75]

Mistaking David Cameron for Kaiser Wilhelm?

By Jawed Naqvi

Monday, 02 Aug, 2010

Why is everyone so excessively miffed with David Cameron? He came to India and said a few terse things about Pakistan and the ISI. Some Pakistanis too would agree with his views on the spy agency, not to mention countries in the neighbourhood that have nightmares over its real and imagined activities. The British prime minister didn’t say anything new, did he? He essentially repeated what we could in any case glean from the Wikileaks revelations, or even earlier, from Zia ul Haq’s havoc, which he wreaked on his countrymen to the West’s boundless appreciation.

Jawed Sahab ka jawab nahin. Somewhere he is upset about what the brave Gen. Zia did to Pakistan while on the other hand he is upset when the Prime Minister of UK delivered his assessment of the most favourite protege and institution of Gen. Zia.

That Jawedji is upset, I am sure of. The mystery is what upsets him more here.

Some critics felt Mr Cameron was undiplomatic in chiding Pakistan from Indian soil, while a former British foreign secretary described him as a loudmouth. But then everyone knows he was on a mission to sell warplanes to India. If flattery and appeasement of the nouveau riche elite in India fetches him a politically and economically useful 700 million pounds military deal, so be it. That’s why he first went to Bangalore where a pact was initialled before he arrived in Delhi. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had arranged a grand reception at the splendorous presidential palace, the former vice-regal lodge, from where Cameron’s forbears had ruled India.

Here we start to get a feel of what is upsetting Jawedbhai a little more clearly. Certainly a part of it has to do with the economic success that India is striving to achieve. And of course, how dare a country like India get respect from UK which ruled India for so long.

Afterall that kind of behaviour is reserved only for nations like Jawedbhai's own who suddenly appeared free on this Earth right next to the slave Indians.

The most evident reason for Mr Cameron to make his overhyped pronouncements from Delhi lies in the fact that he is a Conservative politician in the image of Margaret Thatcher. When Napoleon called England a nation of shopkeepers he could not have imagined how accurately the description would fit the former Iron Lady who, it was common knowledge, never visited any country without an order form in her handbag. Mrs Thatcher of course had another feather in her cap which Mr Cameron can only dream of. Her image makeover came from near the remote South Pole where she converted the Malvinas islands into the Falklands with military force.

And here it is just getting clearer that Jawedji has an increasing dislike of the principle of economic / politico give and take. I think by now it is evident that he believes in the higher altruistic purpose in this world of ony giving and giving away wealth to a deserving country like Pakistan and has a strong dislike to the principle of nations seeking mutual gains with their resources and positions of influence. And on top of everything the precious human resources such as terrorists, assassins, spies, extremists that Pakistan has so ardously developed get no due and on the other hand the stupid wealth that the Indians generated over the years is worth more. This is a conspiracy of direst magnitutes (equivalent to several tonnes of TNT explosion) against humanity.

There seems far less hope for her ideological protégé to expect similar generosity in an even more inhospitable region – Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East where Britain has its irons in the fire. The best he can hope for is to cut his losses at home, discard the Liberal allies in the not too distant future and find the votes to elect a Conservative government by being or becoming assiduously rightwing.

Therefore, Mr Cameron cannot and should not be faulted for being merely what he is – an exceedingly ambitious Conservative politician. And though he is seeking to cast himself in the mould of Mrs Thatcher he neither has a Ronald Regan to boost his morale nor the ruse of a Cold War to mask the ambitions of his party’s militarist worldview. The trouble lies elsewhere, and it really lies with the obsequious Indians and fawning Pakistanis who act hurt when they are rapped on the knuckles by those they seek to play sherpas to.

Here Jawedbhai is a little disappointing because he has started shooting the messenger and not the message. But that can be excused. In our world afterall there are humans and of course then lesser humans like me and what else but our actions and thoughts give us away.

What Mr Cameron said about the ISI made for banner headlines in most Indian dailies. Why? The question is particularly valid since Indian officials, including the home secretary, the foreign minister and the national security adviser had known and spoken publicly of the ISI’s entanglement in Afghanistan. What is the net worth of Mr Cameron’s inculpation of the ISI in Afghanistan when India already knew better? And in spite of this knowledge about the ISI, Dr Manmohan Singh was willing to talk to Pakistan. The Indian leader obviously knows more than anyone else that the only way to tame the ISI in Afghanistan or in Kashmir would be to take Pakistan on a journey of trust-building. But there are powerful lobbies in India that can virtually dictate the lead story to a newspaper and who don’t want any progress in talks with Islamabad.

Now I think he is getting confused. First reaction is normally sarcasm, then slandering and then follows confusion !!

Jawedbhai needs to make up his mind whether India is after Pakistan or it wants peace with Pakistan as he is stating above.

How else could the Times of India, leading the Aman Yatra for peace with Pakistan, report after the Cameron-Singh press conference that Dr Singh had blamed the Pakistan foreign minister for the talks’ “failure” in Islamabad? Failure? The Indian prime minister had clearly said that the Pakistan minister’s handling of a press conference had distracted from important achievements the two foreign ministers had made in their discussions.

Similarly, when Indian and Pakistani national security advisers met in Delhi and warmly hugged each other in September 2008 in an unprecedented public display of camaraderie, they had been hit by the Kabul embassy blast in July and a subsequent attack on the Marriott in Islamabad. Did they not know their brief? M.K. Narayanan, the Indian NSA, told Mr Mahmud Ali Durrani that he was on the same page with him on terrorism. What did they mean? Did India not know about the ISI’s role in Afghanistan when it was reaching out to Pakistan before Mumbai set back the rapprochement by months.

Now building on total denial as we move forward. Afterall the Indian Embassy bombing should not have been an event which could disrupt the discussions between India & Pakistan. The destruction of India embassy is only just because India has no business in trying to build friendships with a nation that is in reality Pakistan's fiefdom. So Indian protests and denouncements of that bombing was merely foolish. See, how foolish can the Indians get Jawedbhai!!

In any case how does Mr Cameron help the matter? What can he do for India? As far as he is concerned India remains a pawn that is aspiring to be a player in the international chess game which his forbears started in 18th century in the southern half of the subcontinent. Were it not for the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle signed in 1748 between France and Spain, British mercenary Robert Clive would be a prisoner in French-ruled Madras. The treaty saw France regaining a key outpost in America. In fact, Britain had exchanged Louisbourg so that France withdrew from the Netherlands. Madras, captured by French Admiral La Bourdonnais in 1746 was returned to Britain likewise. Is a similar treaty going to be signed to work out some international arrangement, say between the Shanghai Group and Nato with similar profit-driven international linkages?

And finally as expected, the discussion trajectory now arrives on discarding everything that the Prime Minister stated. Afterall the Prime Minister could not have expected to have gotten away from this gaffe without Jawedbai's personal rebuke. And who is this James Cameron anyway? Even if he is the Prime Minister of U.K? And that too for a pawn like India who is barely managing to keep a trillion dollar economy working with a mere 9% plus growth rate. What could the Prime Minister really do for this nation of beggars?

Would it not be more prudent for India to resolve its disputes with Pakistan, among other reasons, to gain an important advantage in Afghanistan – and thus also avoid the embarrassment of remaining a cheerleader for the United States and Britain, that too in its own neighbourhood? To get there, however, it will need to overcome the embarrassment of an obsequious middle class with its “non-resident” pseudo nationalist mentality. It would require the press to stop acting silly.

It really was the limit to see a perfectly agreeable anchor of NDTV asking Mr Cameron to repeat the lines on the ISI. Then the anchor did something even more embarrassing. He virtually asked the British prime minister to agree with his view that the British prime minister had come to Delhi first before planning a trip to Beijing because he cared more for India! A literally frightened Mr Cameron quickly brushed aside the query. I had thought the days were over when one elderly gentleman would invariably humiliate his Indian reporters with his fawning queries at news conferences.

On one occasion, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was bombarded with the most bizarre line of inquiry. “Welcome to Delhi sir,” said the accredited correspondent of goodness knows which newspaper. Then came the punch line. “Sir between India and Pakistan, would you support us or Pakistan? Also, sir on the question of Kashmir, are you with India? And finally, sir, now that you have East Germany with you, can you help us improve our Olympic standards?” Kohl’s pithy reply was subtle and, I fear, it may have missed his quarry: “I think you are mistaking me for Kaiser Wilhelm,” the German Chancellor said before moving on to the next correspondent.

Thank God that this embarrassing correspondent was cut short by Chancellor Kohl just where he did. Who knows, the next question from the correspondent could have been : How much of aid will now you try to arrange for us? That would have really shamed most Indians of today to the lowest level of embarrassment.

And I totally agree with the Cheerleader analysis of Jawedbhai. Afer CEATO, CENTO and gifting a part of Kashmir to China, how dare Indians even try to learn this art of entertainment of the teenagers? Specially when Indians were stupidly trying to create leadership via NAM.

The cheering and bending over better be left to others. Let us just hope that there is no Armitage calling India to see how good can we get at Cheerleading and bending over.

Anyway, thankfully China will ensure that India never gets the cheerleading crown. Afterall they need Pakistan to cheer for them till they are there.

Well, nor does Mr Cameron claim to be Kaiser Wilhelm. The difference though between Kohl and him was that in a manner of speaking the British leader was more encouraging of his hosts. He was impressed for example with India’s Commonwealth Games effort, which he declared, contrary to what many Indians believe was the case, a success. As Manmohan Singh received the words with obvious relief, his mind must have strayed to the Section 144 imposed in the localities surrounding the sports venue. The criminal procedure code was given the offensive clause by the British in the aftermath of the 1857 uprising to prevent a meeting anywhere of more than four Indians. Four or more Indians were perceived to be plotting something sinister. The same colonial law will help secure the Commonwealth sports contest in October. Mr Cameron could not have missed the symbolism of the great Indian democracy governed with quaint British laws. Looking at the hapless state of Afghanistan, however, we can’t help feeling that things could have been far worse for India and Pakistan. Both should count their blessings.
jawednaqvi@gmail.com

The above part and the references to Indian law are perfectly in place. Afterall what would Jawedbhai know of the British law that India is now following. The Greatnation of Pakistan afterall has its own set of invented/innovative laws since the time of Bin Qasim.

And I really hope that India stages the commonwealth games well. Afterall at least some of us can have sports events in our nation, let us not squander these opportunities.

Indeed, Jawedbhai ka jawab nahin. (From P-alms-o-live advert).

 

[SMC]

Well well, a post full of sarcasm, ad homenims, and personal attacks from an indian. Good going.

 

[H2O3C4Nitrogen]

for once we should become the true terrorists and make there job easier ..

There UK Army heads have been praising Pakistani efforts and this guy comes in out of blue and says hey Pakistanis are terrorists . . . .!!!
This shows how much incoherent mr cameron is with his security organisations, when it comes to giving statements like these.

I say for once we make his statement true then see what he has to say... !!!!

 

[GUNNER]

Pakistan officials summon British high commissioner

The Pakistani government has summoned Britain's high commissioner to Islamabad amid a diplomatic storm over David Cameron's comments about Pakistani attitudes to terrorism.

Adam Thomson was called in by the Pakistani foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, in what was seen as a dressing down after Cameron infuriated Pakistan with his remarks while visiting India.

"The foreign minister emphasised that terrorism was a global issue and had to be dealt with by all countries in a spirit of co-operation, rather than putting the entire onus on any one country," the Pakistani foreign ministry said in a statement.

"He said Pakistan was itself a victim of terrorism and its efforts against violent extremism could not be negated."

A spokesman for the Foreign Office said: "We can confirm that the British high commissioner to Pakistan is meeting this morning with the foreign minister, at the request of the ministry of foreign affairs."

With the row threatening to overshadow an official visit to the UK by Pakistan's president, Asif Zardari, Downing Street said the prime minister would not apologise for his remarks but would absolve the Pakistan government of any blame for promoting extremism and violence.

Opposition parties in the country have demanded that the trip be cancelled. Pakistan's powerful military establishment has already demonstrated its anger by cancelling a visit by a delegation of intelligence officials to the UK.

Protesters burnt an effigy of the prime minister in the streets of Karachi.

Zardari – who arrives in Britain tomorrow – will "forcefully take up" the remarks when he meets Cameron, according to Pakistan's information minister, Qamar Zaman Kaira. Attention is most likely to be focused on a session with the prime minister at Chequers on Friday.

Pakistan's military was particularly incensed that Cameron chose to make his comments in India, Pakistan's traditional rival. Amid fears that security co-operation between Britain and Pakistan could be hit by the row, British officials have sought to play down the significance of the spat, insisting "no long-term damage" had been done by the prime minister's remarks in India.

British counter-terrorist officials make no secret of the importance they attach to security co-operation with Pakistan, although they admit the relationship can sometimes be difficult.

Gordon Brown said 75% of terrorist plots in the UK had links to Pakistan, though that figure is now said to be down to around 50% as al-Qaida's presence and operational abilities in the region have diminished.

British and other Nato forces in Afghanistan are almost entirely dependent on Pakistan for their supply route.

Numerous terrorist conspiracies, some involving British nationals, have been foiled with spy agencies from the two countries working together, including the 2006 plan to blow up transatlantic airliners.

Britain's high commission in Islamabad has long included a senior representative from MI6 and also, more recently, from MI5 – a change that reflects the growth of domestic UK security concerns since the July 2005 London bombings.

The shadow foreign secretary, David Miliband, compared Cameron's diplomatic style to "a cuttlefish squirting out ink".

"Mr Cameron has used the last two weeks to make a verbal splash on foreign policy. Like a cuttlefish squirting out ink his words were copious and created a mess," Miliband said.

"The mindsets in Israel, Pakistan and Britain have all been given the once-over. But making a splash is not the same as making a difference. That is the real test, not the false trail of whether to speak straight or not."

 

[Hafizzz]

Every indian has defnitely one dream but very different from the one you are claiming...Our dream is to become a superpower....An economic superpower and an undisputed regional power in military terms.....we do not wish for any invasion be it Pakistan..be it China....So i am sorry but you seems to be basing your argument on a flawed assumption....

LOL. "Superpower". India has set her dream way too HIGH.

See below :

Failed State: Unsuccessful attempts to form a country–India
Failed State: Unsuccessful attempts to form a country–India Failed States


Why is India the failed state? Bharat Verma challenged
Why is India the failed state? Bharat Verma challenged Failed States


India-the failed state of South Asia
India-the failed state of South Asia Failed States


Most of India is in hands of insurgents
Most of India is in hands of insurgents Failed States

 

[mr_cool]

Here we go WMD intelligence all over again!

As John Prescott (former deputy PM of UK) said afew days ago, "When I kept reading them, I kept thinking to myself: 'Is this intelligence?' It's basically what you have heard somewhere and what somebody else has told somebody. Presumably that's how intelligence is brought about.
So I got the feeling it wasn't very substantial, but it clearly was robust."

All this hype because wikiLeaks says so! Forget the fact that those 92000 documents are not compiled and assessed INTELLIGENCE reports. They are mere primary FIELD REPORTS ---- REPEAT PRIMARY FIELD REPORTS, filled by SOLDIERS, NOT BY TRAINED intelligence Officers.

I read quite few of them, including the 300 selected carefully by the guardian (british news paper). One report even says Hamid Gul, ex-ISI chief MET with this three would-be suicide bombers. hmmmmm
So the guy has part of Berlin wall on his desk with note from German Intelligence Chief, thanking him for delivering the "first blow". and yet he made THE basic mistake! If he is half as good as Russian conflict writers claim, he would not meet PERSONALLY with HIGH RISK dispensable operatives. In other reports the place names etc are WRONG. No wonder snr intelligence officers ignored such "primary reports".

Currently we have about 9000 British soldiers in Afghanistan and we spend £4.2 BILLION ($6.56 billion) annually. Still commanders and experts claim that this is NOT enough to meet troops requirements and they have insufficient equipment to fight the war.

Pakistan on other hand has 100K+ military and para-military troops deployed in western region. Her TOTAL defense budget is $7.8 billion, which is 4.5% of total GDP. So £4.5 Billions are not enough to equip 9000 soldiers properly and Pakistan is supposed to equip 100K+ Soldiers deployed in region and fight with a fraction of $7.8 Billion! For the same QUALITY of equipment and determination as British soldiers... should not they spend $78 billion? but we know can't allow them to spend $78 billion because it's easy to say "do more" than SELLING night vision & body Armour equipment.

One more important thing which people here conveniently ignore. There were no demonstrations on streets in Pakistan to pull-out or support Afghans. But there are definitely demonstrations everywhere against comments and demands like "do more". There is no general support for Pakistani or Afghan Talibans. If there was any, they would have toppled the government by now. Not too long ago they kicked Musharaf out, despite him having full support from Pakistani MILITARY, AMERICA & British administration.

David Cameron's recent visit, every country he went to, he made comments to PLEASE host country. "Junior partners" in America, "Open prison" In Turkey and "export terrorism" in India.

It took 56 dead and one fail terrorist attack in Glasgow to change general perception of British public. Why David Cameron thinks that Pakistanis would react differently! Those Talibans have killed more Pakistanis in bomb blasts than 9/11, 7/7, Bombay attacks, total allied forces casualties in Afghanistan (all put together)!!!

 

[GUNNER]

UK Has "Good, Strong" Relations With Pakistan-Official

LONDON (Dow Jones)--The U.K. and Pakistan enjoy "very good, strong relations," Prime Minister David Cameron's spokeswoman said Monday as the British government sought to contain a row with Pakistan over comments made last week by Cameron.

"We have very good, strong relations with Pakistan and we're looking to continue to build those," the spokeswoman said.

Cameron's spokeswoman said the prime minister stood by his remarks. But she said the prime minister was looking forward to Zardari's visit and stressed that he recognizes Pakistani government efforts in fighting extremism.

"Pakistan is already, as the prime minister has acknowledged, taking action against extremism," she said.

The spokeswoman said Friday's meeting will be "a good opportunity to discuss further what action is being taken" by Pakistan.

She said counter-terrorism issues would be on the agenda on Friday, alongside a range of other bilateral issues.

"The general point I think we need to remind ourselves of is the strong links that we have with Pakistan on many levels, not only through families and history but we work very closely on a broad range of issues with them," she said.


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I can feel damage control exercise here !

 

[Bhim]

It took 56 dead and one fail terrorist attack in Glasgow to change general perception of British public. Why David Cameron thinks that Pakistanis would react differently! Those Talibans have killed more Pakistanis in bomb blasts than 9/11, 7/7, Bombay attacks, total allied forces casualties in Afghanistan (all put together)!!!

Yes he knows that, thats why he is said that, it's for the good of Pakistan and the world and not to please the Indian establishment. He is saying the same thing at home, that is-
Hunt and capture all forms of Terror outfits in Pakistan


Add- There you go a very well posted article by Gunner.