Prime Minister David Cameron UK is expected to call a "new start" relations with Pakistan during a visit to his country, months after he sparked a diplomatic skirmish by suggesting Pakistan promoted the export of terrorism.
Cameron arrived in Islamabad Tuesday at the start and was welcomed with a red carpet and an honour guard at the residence of Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. Cameron visit is one of the relatively rare trips to Pakistan by Western heads of Government.
Britain considers its relationship with Pakistan to be of critical importance, especially for reasons of national security.
Britain has a population of significant minority of Pakistani origin, and several plots of terror aimed at the United Kingdom was traced to the extremists in this group. Britain was also part of the United States-led coalition fighting the Taliban and al-Qaeda in neighbouring Pakistan Afghanistan.
The British Embassy in Islamabad has published excerpts from a speech that Cameron was to give later in the day, to dispel the misunderstandings of the past, work through the tensions of the present and consider together in which he invited the two countries the opportunities of the future. ?
The comments appeared, at least in part, to the easing of tensions in the Cameron comments on his trip to India in July 2010, when he said Pakistan should not be allowed to "promote the export of terror at the India"Afghanistan or anywhere elsewhere in the world. ?
The statement outraged Pakistan, not least because it was made in India, Pakistan's archrival and power nuclear Companion.
"I recognize that there are some challenges that our friendship." "But I want to say today that they should not retain us anymore", Cameron is set to say in his speech to Islamabad.
"Whether relations with India, our security or governance issues, if we work closely with others, if we are clear that we need to succeed, we can seize these difficult issues and go beyond their for a better future.". Then let's start today ' ' in our relationship. ?
According to extracts, Cameron said putting end to the threat of terrorism as a major issue, but trade relations and investment talks and calls for a Pakistani who is "open, free and tolerant."
Cameron is also scheduled to meet with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and senior officials in the Muslim-majority country. Zardari has been in Britain in August, when he and Cameron attempted to reduce the friction caused by the remarks of the British Prime Minister in India.
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