Terrorists are British, not Pakistani: Islamabad tells London

October 13th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Another Pakistani student deported from Britain arrived at the Benazir International Airport here on Tuesday. Muhammad Ramadan, along with 10 other Pakistani students, was arrested by the British police on terror charges.

September 19th, 2009 LONDON - Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has asked Britain to stop blaming Islamabad for the 'home grown' terror plots against the UK. Referring to Britain's lashing out at Pakistan on the liquid bomb plot issue, Qureshi said it was unfair to criticize Pakistan for every terror plot hatched in Britain.

September 10th, 2009 LONDON - British anti-terror border controls were described as wholly inadequate after a newspaper revealed that only 29 out of 66,000 Pakistani immigration applicants were interviewed by British officials. Visa checks on immigrants from Pakistan were condemned as a sham after the Daily Mail said official figures showed that just 29 out of 66,000 applicants were interviewed by officials since Britain put in place a supposedly rigorous system last October.

September 9th, 2009 LONDON - A top Pakistani diplomat has reacted strongly to Britain's accusations regarding Pakistan harbouring extremists plotting to attack the UK. The diplomat charged Britain of not doing enough to tackle home grown terrorists and treating Pakistan as a "whipping boy".

August 7th, 2009 LONDON - Terrorists claiming to represent Pakistani Balochis are planning to declare 'independence' on August 11 this year,according to BRASSTACKS. Though this will not change much on the ground, but these terrorists and their supporters in Kabul, New Delhi and within CIA will score a major point against Islamabad.

July 14th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Police has arrested two high valued terrorists and foiled their attempts to carry out violent activities in Islamabad. On the basis of an intelligence report, Islamabad Capital Territory Police arrested two terrorists belonging to banned al-Qaeda, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Baitullah Mehsud, Mahmood Agency and Buner Group.

May 14th, 2009 LONDON - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari held talks with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown here after making his first official visit to the US. According to the Pakistani High Commission in London, Zardari is paying a two-day visit, during which he will also meet Foreign Secretary David Miliband and opposition Conservative leader David Cameron, among others.

May 7th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has refused to issue visas to a team of British officials who were supposed to visit Islamabad to facilitate signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between both the countries on extradition of unwanted, suspicious persons. According to the officials Islamabad has decided not to issue visas to register its protest against the arrest of Pakistani students over suspicion of them plotting terror attacks across Britain.

April 13th, 2009 LONDON - Britain might eventually deport most of the 12 alleged Pakistani terrorists who were arrested from across the country last week. According to Times Online, officials in London and Islamabad said Britain has asked for an assurance from Pakistan over the treatment the arrested men would receive after they are deported.

April 12th, 2009 LONDON - A British minister wants the United Kingdom to distance itself publicly from the American policy of launching attacks on al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists hiding inside Pakistan tribal areas with pilot less drones, to avoid inflaming Pakistani opinion. Community Cohesion Minister Sadiq Khan said he had listened to the "anger and frustration" of students in Islamabad over US attacks inside Pakistan.

April 10th, 2009 LONDON - Pakistan and Britain asked each other to 'do more' to counter terrorism after British police arrested a dozen men - most of them Pakistani students - for suspected links with a major terror plot. 'We are dealing with a very big terrorist plot - we've been following it for some time,' British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday.

April 10th, 2009 LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown telephoned President Asif Ali Zardari late on Thursday after the arrest of 10 Pakistani-born nationals on student visas and one UK-born British national on charges of terrorism, to warn him to do more to root out terrorist elements in Pakistan. This is the first time Pakistanis on student visas have been arrested on such serious charges.

April 1st, 2009 LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh Wednesday that most of the terrorist attacks in Britain have their origins in Pakistan. The British premier made the comments at the fag-end of a meeting lasting over an hour at his office at 10 Downing Street, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told reporters.

February 11th, 2009 LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday the continued presence of Al Qaeda terrorists in Pakistan requires Islamabad to take primary responsibility for fighting them. 'They have responsibilities upon themselves,' Brown told senior British MPs.

February 7th, 2009 LONDON - The CIA has told President Barack Obama that British-born Pakistani terrorists, who have extensive contacts with Lashkar-e-Taiba, are the biggest threat to the US, the Sunday Telegraph reported. American spy chiefs have told the president that the Central Intelligence Agency has launched a vast spying operation in Britain to prevent a repeat of the 9/11 attacks being launched from Britain, the paper said.