Declaring that the war against terrorism will be fought on all fronts and all territories, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said this commitment is reinforced by the car bomb attack on the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly which left at least 38 people dead and scores injured. Addressing a special session of Parliament, Blair said an unprecedented level of solidarity and commitment to work together against terrorism is being undertaken by the international community.
This is a commitment that spans all continents, cultures and religions, reinforced by attacks like the one on the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly in Srinagar, which killed over 30 innocent people. Blair, who had a ten-minute telephonic conversation with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Wednesday, said over the past three weeks foreign secretary Jack Straw and he had been in intensive contact with foreign leaders from every part of the world.
Blair had a 30-minute meeting with external affairs minister Jaswant Singh on Wednesday. After the talks, Singh said that Britain had pledged full cooperation in fighting terrorism in Kashmir and would not allow its soil to be used as a base for raising funds to fuel terrorism in the valley.
Bureau Report