PAKISTAN'S INTELLIGENCE AGENCY IS THE DIRTIEST IN THE WHOLE WORLD

 The British government has said there is a "clear link" between Pakistan's intelligence agency, ISI and three major militant outfits Lashkar-e-Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Harakat Mujahideen operating in Jammu and Kashmir, and proscribed by Britain.

"Terrorism (from across the border) has had the covert support of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI)," the main intelligence agency in Pakistan, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who recently visited India and Pakistan to defuse their tension, told the House of Commons.

 "Her majesty's government accepts that there is a clear link between ISI and these groups—Lashkar-e-Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Harakat Mujahideen—which have been proscribed in Britain", he said.

After the government had made a similar statement in the House of Lords, one member said Britain should impress upon India that it should implement the UN resolutions on Kashmir.

India born lord Swraj Paul intervened to say that the best course was to take a realistic view of the situation now. Both India and Pakistan should be persuaded that the war was not an answer to their problems and that they should sit together and find a solution through dialogue.

Lord Paul praised the hard work and the efforts of Straw and the British High Commissioner in New Delhi Sir Rob Young to defuse the Indo-Pak situation.