Tony Blair’s Peace mission moving to Pakistan
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is flying to Islamabad today to press Pakistan’s government to condemn terrorism completely as a step towards defusing a dangerous show down with India.
Tony Blair yesterday joined India in pressing for Pakistani action, implicitly rejecting the country’s recent crack down on Islamic militants as insufficient.
In a graphic demonstration of the continuing tension on the frontier between the nuclear-armed neighbours, Indian soldiers shot down a Pakistani drone aircraft that intruded into Indian air space yesterday over disputed Kashmir.
Pakistan denied the report and said an Indian aircraft had crashed and India’s military was trying to cover it up through "baseless propaganda".
Pakistani police said yesterday that security forces had arrested 42 Muslim militants in eastern Punjab province, raising to 300 the number of detainees held in the crackdown against groups opposed to Indian rule over two thirds of the disputed Kashmir.
