Cameron calls a "new start" in Relations between the United Kingdom and Pakistan - Bloomberg

Prime Minister David Cameron UK, greenhouse left, the hand with his counterpart Pakistani Yousuf Raza Gilani as they arrive for talks in the House by the Prime Minister in Islamabad. Photographer: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images

Prime Minister David Cameron called a "new start" in relations between Britain and Pakistan after last year accused elements in the country of South Asia to export terrorism.

Cameron, on his first visit to Pakistan since taking office almost a year ago, said students from the University in Islamabad today he wants to "dispel the misunderstandings of the past" and "mark a new chapter" in ties between the two countries.

"We want a strong relationship with an open safe, prosperous and flourishing Pakistan," he said. "I recognize that there are some challenges that our friendship." "But I want to say today that they should not retain us anymore."

Cameron has triggered a diplomatic storm when he declared during a visit to India in July that Pakistan, an ally key in the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaeda militants based on its border with the Afghanistan, do not leave "look both ways" against terrorism or "promote the export of terror in the Inded'Afghanistan or ' of any place elsewhere in the world. ?

In September, the concerns of disputes raised that Pakistan could hinder Exchange of information, considered essential in the prevention of acts of terrorism in United Kingdom Jonathan Evans, Director General of the MI5 intelligence service, said that the tribal areas of Pakistan accounted for half of all terrorist plots against the United Kingdom.

"The most important thing for the European Governments a constant stream of Pakistani intelligence," said Zafar Jaspal Nawaz, Professor of international relations at the International University of Quaid-e-Azam of Islamabad." Cameron "will try to restore this relationship if there was no damage after his comments in India."

Speaking after talks with Cameron today, Prime Minister of Pakistan Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, has stated that his country is committed to the fight against terrorism and the loan to exchange information.

"I want to assure you, you, the media, that Pakistan has the will and the commitment to fight against extremism and terrorism and we have the capacity," Gilani said Cameron at a joint Islamabad press conference. Pakistan had "paid a very heavy price" for his efforts, with tens of thousands of people killed and wounded, said.

Cameron replied that the Government of Pakistan is involved in "a huge fight" against terrorism which had claimed the lives of "many, many people."

Cameron made his comments after military documents published on the site suggest Web Wikileaks secretly, intelligence agency of Pakistan, the Directorate of Inter-Services, assisted by the Taliban and other information groups last July. He would later say that he was referring to "persons in Pakistan", who are responsible for terrorism rather than the Government.

At his press conference with Gilani today, Cameron said the United Kingdom and Pakistan had a friendship "unbreakable" and that he was in British interests to see Pakistan succeed. Accompanied by John Sawers, head of the Intelligence Service of Secret of the United Kingdom and the head of the armed forces, David Richards, Cameron previously held discussions with Gilani, head of the army Ashfaq Pervez Kayani and intelligence chief Ahmed Shujaa Pasha in Islamabad.

The two Prime Ministers signed a document "strategic dialogue" improved retailer, committing to work with the United States United Kingdom and Pakistan to put in place a "centre of excellence" to share expertise in the fight against road explosives. Bombs homemade, known as the improvised explosive devices, are the "threat" to British soldiers in Afghanistan, Foreign Secretary William Hague said in October.

The agreement included as much as 650 million pounds ($1.05 billion) in aid over the next four years, to provide education for 4 million of the 17 million Pakistani children not in school. Countries that have pledged to double trade between them to 2.5 billion pounds per year by 2015.

Cameron also urged Pakistan to increase the amount of tax it collects, arguing that its ratio of tax to the current GDP of 10% makes it more difficult to justify the sending of aid money from the u.k., where the ratio is 36%.

"You not raise the resources needed to pay for things that require a modern State and people," he said. "Too few people pay the tax." "Too much of your richest people is getting away without paying tax at all - and this is not fair."

To contact the reporter on this story: Thomas Penny to Islamabad to tpenny@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: James Hertling at jhertling@bloomberg.net.

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