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British PM visits Pakistan after Mumbai attacks
AFP - 12 minutes ago
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrived in Pakistan Sunday for talks aimed at calming tensions with India as Islamabad accused its neighbour of violating its airspace, drawing a swift denial.
Brown travelled here from New Delhi, where he earlier held talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on security in the wake of the devastating attacks on Mumbai, which New Delhi has blamed on "elements" in Pakistan.
"I will talk to the president of Pakistan and I will explain the concerns that the Indian people have about what has happened," Brown said before leaving India.
The British leader said he would raise India's concerns during talks with Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, and accused the banned Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) of being behind the attacks that left 172 dead.
"We know that the group responsible is LeT and they have a great deal to answer for," he said in India. "I will talk to the president of Pakistan and I will explain the concerns that the Indian people have about what has happened."
Relations between India and Pakistan have plummeted in the wake of the devastating assault on India's financial capital.
Brown's visit comes just hours after Pakistan said Indian jets made an "inadvertent" intrusion into its airspace, which threatened to further harm ties between the nuclear-armed South Asian states.
Pakistan's air force said Indian jets had Saturday flown over the Pakistani-administered part of Kashmir and the eastern city of Lahore, both places where Lashkar-e-Taiba is active.
The government in Islamabad said it had confirmed the incident with India.
"We contacted the Indian air force and they said the violation was inadvertent. We don't want to escalate the situation," Information Minister Sherry Rehman said.
But a spokesman for India's air force denied the accusation.
"There has not been any airspace violation as has been alleged," Wing Commander Mahesh Upasani told AFP.
Late last month, gunmen ran riot in Mumbai, leading to a 60-hour siege in which hundreds of terrified locals and tourists were caught up. Nine of the 172 people killed were attackers. The last assailant is in Indian custody.
India last week called Pakistan the "epicentre" of terrorism and demanded it do more to crack down on militant groups on its soil, but ruled out military action.
Pakistan has arrested key leaders of LeT, the group India accuses of carrying out the Mumbai attacks, and shut down a charity accused of being a front for the group, freezing its assets and detaining dozens of members.
But it says it will not hand over any suspects to India, which it says has not yet provided any evidence implicating Pakistanis in the attacks.
India and Pakistan have fought three wars since independence from Britain, and Brown's visit is part of a concerted international effort to ease the pressure between the two nations.
Britain has previously urged India and Pakistan, whose long-running dispute over divided Kashmir is a fault line of geopolitical significance, to work together in the wake of the devastation.
Brown's Foreign Secretary David Miliband said earlier this month that "violent extremism is a threat to the very integrity of both of those countries."
Nearly 1,500 people have died in bomb blasts, most of them suicide attacks, since the Pakistani Taliban launched a terror campaign after the deadly military raid on the Al-Qaeda linked Red Mosque in Islamabad in July 2007.
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