Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said that there was "no credible intelligence" tying the London bombers to his country…
Seeking to turn the tables on Britain in the wake of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s criticism that Pakistan was not doing enough to tackle terrorism, he said there was no need to blame Islamabad as the problem was not there.
"The problem is not in Pakistan but in England. Let that be clear. They [London bombers] belong to an extremist organisation, which has not been banned [in Britain].
There was "no credible intelligence" linking the bombers to Pakistan, despite reports that three of the four had spent time there, he told ABC television in an interview.
Asked whether he knew what the bombers were doing in Pakistan, he said: "We don’t, but we are going to investigate. Of course, they came on British passports, and these people belong, unfortunately, to extremist organisations based in London itself."
Lashing out at Britain, he said England had been slow to react to growing extremism within its borders, including not acting upon a fatwah.
"What did England do about this? Have they banned these organisations? Have they arrested the person who has done that? No, nothing," he said.
