Islamabad, June 24: The Pakistani president has rejected British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s description of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan as the ‘crucible for global terrorism.’
“I think sometimes people say things they don’t understand or mean but I think his concern is genuine and I appreciate the concern,” Asif Ali Zardari told ITV’s News at Ten.
He also denied any knowledge of militant training camps in Pakistan, saying it was an “old thought” among British intelligence that thousands of radicals were arriving in Britain.
“I don’t think there are any known camps that you know of or we know of or British intelligence know of that exist,” he added.
“Of course they exist underground – the mafia exists underground in Britain – and wherever we find it we crush it … but I don’t think there is a particular place which we know of that still exists.”
—–Agencies