Cameron angers Pakistan with terror comments

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How did good people of UK managed to elected this guy and his party to run their country? He seems to change his tone depending on who he is talking to.

Cameron angers Pakistan with terror comments
By Daniel Bentley, Press Association
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Prime Minister David Cameron during a speech in India

David Cameron angered Pakistan today after warning that it should not be allowed “to promote the export of terror” in the world.

Speaking in India, the Prime Minister appeared to step up rhetoric against Pakistan over accusations that it supports terrorist groups.

“We should be very, very clear with Pakistan that we want to see a strong, stable and democratic Pakistan,” he said during a question and answer session in Bangalore.

"But we cannot tolerate in any sense the idea that this country is allowed to look both ways and is able, in any way, to promote the export of terror whether to India, whether to Afghanistan or to anywhere else in the world.

“That is why this relationship is important. It should be a relationship based on a very clear message - that it is not right to have any relations with groups that are promoting terror.”

Mr Cameron’s comments followed a speech at IT firm Infosys in Bangalore, as he was appealing for a “new relationship” with India.

He had been questioned by a member of the audience about British and American support for neighbouring Pakistan.

Mr Cameron said it was an issue he discussed with US president Barack Obama last week and would talk to Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh about in New Delhi tomorrow.

A spokeswoman for the Prime Minister said he had not been accusing the Pakistani government of sponsoring terrorism.

He was repeating his previous demands for it to do more to “shut terror groups down”, she added.

But in a subsequent interview with the BBC, Mr Cameron said: “It is an issue where we have to make sure that the Pakistani authorities are not looking in two ways.”

Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Basit responded that “there is no question of Pakistan looking the other way”.

Mr Cameron’s comments come shortly after the leak of confidential “war logs” which included detailed claims that Pakistan’s ISI intelligence agency was secretly helping the Taliban.

Mr Basit dismissed the claims as “crude, self-serving and unverifiable” and said Mr Cameron should not use them as a basis for his analysis of the situation.
“As the international community knows very well, Pakistan is committed against terrorism, against militancy, and we are committed not to allow our territory to be used for terrorism or terrorist actions anywhere in the world,” he told BBC Radio 4’s The World At One.

"So there is no question of Pakistan looking the other way.

“I think the Prime Minister was referring to these reports, which are unverifiable and outdated. If we start drawing inferences from these self-serving reports, then obviously we are distracting ourselves.”

Pakistani senator Khurshid Ahmad, vice-president of the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami Party, warned that Mr Cameron’s remarks risked fuelling “anti-American, anti-West” feeling on the streets.

“I am deeply concerned,” Professor Ahmad told World at One. "The basis on which this statement has been made is very fragile.

"The documents released are unreliable - 90% of them have been attributed to the Afghan intelligence agencies, whose reports are totally unreliable and fabricated.

“On the basis of such a report, it is not acceptable to make the statement that has been made.”

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Media has supported Cameron’s remarks

Pakistan cannot play both sides forever

**David Cameron was right to take the country to task for its role in terrorism, argues Michael Burleigh. **

Canadian Editorials

Pakistan is part of problem

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Pakistan+part+problem/3335298/story.html

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Cameron is on trip to increase trade with India.

What can be more perfect script than this to please India?

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I'm getting bored the Pakistan people are getting ored the whole world except the imperialists are getting bored of this stupid "do more" idea.

Pakistan has done more than enough it's not the only country involved up to it's neck in terrorism Britian, India the, Ayatollahs, the Ruskies the Yanks the Dutch and the Yevs are all in it.

No one tells them to do more so Pakistan has every right to sit back and play it's cards close to it's chest.

Politics is a game, until thousands are dead...

I dont have to start

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What a cheapskate like Cameron will do next to get some extra business. Wonder what he will sell next to appease the chinese.

It is time UK and USA also stop playing both sides forever and they are part of the porblem, in fact they are the problem. The terrorism in that part of the world has flourished due to the inocmpetence of the brilliant and brave armies there who have achieved nothing in 9 years.

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Would zardari have the guts to call of his visit next week in face of cameron sucking upto the Indians and saying what ever would please them in order to gain more business, Pathetic.

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He was just trying to appease Indians

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daleeel, 5 rupees says Zardari has already made reservations, plans etc to live it up in England.
These SOB leaders have all their life savings in Britain, U.S. they have no interest in saying anything to their real daddy's.

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I hope (and wish) for once Zardari cancels the trip to England.

Even lallo panjo leader of the world sometimes shows courage. when will Pakistani leaders get the courage? :hmmm:

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Its called politics, play both sides.

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I liked the reply by Pakistani High Commissioner though, quite bold of him to say the truth.

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Oh Paks,

No need to burn your nickers just because the good ole Dave said something unpleasant.

We just need to ask ourself simple questions.

  1. Is Pakistan getting burned by the Pak-based terrorists?
  2. Is Pakistan's good name getting destroyed overseas by nutz of 7/7 or time square.

If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then we should accept our halat and our reputation as it is and do something to improve it.

No need to lash out on the comments.

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sure thing Mr. Hoodbhoy, let me just jot all that down and save for when the next apologist asks me the same questions again.

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ISI chief has canceled his visit to UK in the light of remarks made by Cameron.

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Hatrick by Cameron. He angered quite a few in 2 months

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/99-outspoken-british-pm-embroiled-in-diplomatic-rows-hjz-01

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Couple of points

1) Right things should be said in right way. Unfortunately this is not the right way.

2) You have see the motive behind. Why is that "all of a sudden" he has to give this interview in INDIA. He could have said this while he was in UK. Every tom dick henry give confrontational interview every-time they are visiting INDIA to cash in!

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Bottom line of my post was relatively simple.

We the Paks must put our house in order.

Who gives the F, what Bob, Dave, Abdullah diwana etc. have to say.

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^ Agreed.

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Pakistan protest over British PM’s comments

it is good to see that ISI has cancelled their visit to UK after the “cheap” comments by Cameron designed to win trade from India. Shows how much he will suck up to the Indians to win a few favours. The British and Americans have miserably failed in Afghanistan and now want to blame Pakistan for their failures. how many people were killed in Pakistan by suicide bombers before the botched invasion by the allies. We have lost the most yet this guy have the guts to talk like this.
Will Zardari have the guts to cancel his visit now.

**Pakistan protest over PM comments **

                   Pakistani intelligence  officials have cancelled a visit to Britain in protest at comments made  by David Cameron about the country's alleged links to terror.
     The prime minister warned Pakistan not to have any relationship with groups that "promote the export of terror".
     Senior intelligence agency officials had been due to come to  London for talks on counter-terrorism co-operation with the UK security  services. 
     A visit by the President, Asif Ali Zardari, is still expected to go ahead.
     Mr Cameron made the comments to reporters after a speech in the southern Indian city of Bangalore on Wednesday.
     He said: "We should be very, very clear with Pakistan that we want to see a strong, stable and democratic Pakistan.
     "We cannot tolerate in any sense the idea that this country  is allowed to look both ways and is able, in any way, to promote the  export of terror, whether to India or whether to Afghanistan or anywhere  else in the world." 
     **'Anger'**
     His remarks followed the leaking of US documents on the  WikiLeaks website in which Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence agency  was accused of secretly helping the Afghan insurgency.
     Pakistani security sources confirmed the cancellation of the visit was as a direct result of Mr Cameron's comments.
     They said his suggestion Pakistan was playing a "double game"  in Afghanistan had caused a great deal of anger within Pakistan's  security establishment, government and civil society. 
     Furious Pakistani foreign office statements have pointed to sacrifices made by the country.
    
      
  The BBC's Aleem Maqbool said there has been an  insistence that it would not affect wider co-operation between the two  countries in fighting militancy.  Pakistan's allies will want this row  resolved as soon as possible.
     Mr Cameron's spokeswoman insisted he was talking about Pakistan as a country, not its government.
     She said that the main message was for Pakistan to shut "terror groups" down.
     Downing Street and the Foreign Office would not comment on  the decision by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, but officials  said Mr Zardari's visit to the UK was expected to go ahead as planned.
      "Our understanding is that the visit is on," said a Foreign Office spokeswoman.
     Sir Hilary Synott, former British High Commissioner to  Pakistan, said the fact that the comments were made in India would annoy  Pakistan.
     But he said India and Britain had shared interests as both  countries had been affected by the activities of groups such as  Lashka-e-Toiba and Hakani network.
     He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there came a stage when private remonstrations do not work. 
     "It's quite clear Pakistan hasn't been controlling these  groups sufficiently, so there comes a time and it's for a politician to  judge this time, when these matters have to be said more strongly."
     Dr Farzana Sheikh, associate fellow at Chatham House think  tank, said there was "deep disarray" inside the ranks of the Pakistani  government, with the intelligence officials and military "clearly at  odds" with the political leadership over how to react.
     "It's clear the military and intelligence services want to  show that they can act quite autonimously of the political leadership by  announcing that Lt Gen Shuja Pasha will not be joining the president on  his visit to the UK."
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he needs to sell toys to India

it part of his sale pitch