Helping Pakistan root out terror

CNN:

Britain's prime minister Sunday asked India and Pakistan to allow UK police to interview Mumbai siege suspects as he revealed the extent of Pakistan-based extremists' involvement in terrorism in his country.

Gordon Brown, who met counterpart Manmohan Singh in New Delhi and Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari in Islamabad, said three quarters of the most serious terrorism cases investigated by British police have links to al Qaeda in Pakistan.

Brown said he asked both Zardari and Prime Minister Singh to allow British police to interview any Mumbai terror suspects arrested in their countries, saying "we all have an interest in discovering what lay behind the attacks."

He said he proposed to Zardari a new pact between Britain and Pakistan to "break the chain of terror that links the mountain of Afghanistan and Pakistan to the streets of the UK and other countries around the world."

It would be "the most comprehensive anti-terrorist program Britain has signed with any country," he said. "We will work to ensure that everything is done to make sure that terrorists are denied any safe haven in Pakistan."

"The time has come for action and not words and I want to help Pakistan and other countries root out terrorism."

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Zardari said his government was investigating links between the Mumbai attacks and his country, but it is too early to know the results since Indian police are not finished with their probe.

"I'm hoping that once the Indian government completes the investigation and shares their results with us we will have further leads to further find if there are any culprits on this side of the border. We shall take action against them."

Brown said his government would also provide information to the Pakistani investigators.

Zardari, in a joint news conference with Brown Sunday afternoon, renewed his pledge that Pakistan would fully cooperate with India's probe of last month's attacks, but he said it was too soon to conclude that its roots were in Pakistan.

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It is not too early to know that much of the world's terrorism emanates from Pakistan's sanctuaries for Islamic religious bigots. LET is just one of the groups present within Pakistan that plan attacks in and out of the country. Since the liberation of Afghanistan, Pakistan has been the base for most of the terrorist. It is also the base for those trying to reimpose tyranny on Afghanistan. With the fall of al Qaeda in Iraq, it has become that terror groups central front in their war against the world.