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Business News/ News / World/  Narendra Modi asks British MPs to raise ‘collective voice’ against terrorism
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Narendra Modi asks British MPs to raise ‘collective voice’ against terrorism

Modi said India and UK are natural partners in the global fight against terrorism

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with an eight-member delegation of British parliamentarians in New Delhi on Tuesday. Photo: PTIPremium
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with an eight-member delegation of British parliamentarians in New Delhi on Tuesday. Photo: PTI

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for raising a “collective voice" against terrorism, extremism and radicalisation during a meeting with British parliamentarians in New Delhi on Tuesday.

Modi said relations between India and UK have “strong bipartisan support in both countries", and called for “enhanced interactions" between Indian and British MPs, an Indian government statement said.

Modi said India and UK are natural partners in the global fight against terrorism, and urged the MPs to “continue to raise their collective voice against terrorism, extremism and radicalisation," the statement said.

The UK was a co-sponsors of a resolution tabled at the UN by the US on 19 January that sought to designate Pakistan based Jaish-e-Mohammed militant Maulana Masood Azhar a terrorist under UN norms.

The resolution was also backed by France but was blocked by China.

JeM has already been blacklisted by the UN Security Council but Azhar is not. Including the name of Azhar in the UN blacklist will mean his travel will be restricted and assets frozen.

JeM is blamed by India for a series of attacks including the 13 December, 2001 attack on the Parliament, and JeM terrorists are suspected to have been behind the killing of US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.

Azhar was jailed by India in 1995 in the high-security Kot Bhalwal prison in Jammu but freed by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in December 1999 in return for the safe release of more than 160 passengers of the hijacked Indian Airlines flight IC 814.

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Published: 14 Feb 2017, 08:34 PM IST
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