Pakistan rejects British request to grill Mumbai suspects

Some ally on the war on terror. This is what $16 billion US buys us, nothing. And congress has a hissy fit to bail out the big three, but no questions about Pakistan aid. AFP

ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has turned down a British request to question suspects arrested in connection with the Mumbai attacks, his office said Monday.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited Islamabad at the weekend in a bid to calm tensions between Pakistan and India in the wake of the attacks in the Indian metropolis that left 172 dead.

"Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said that in his meeting on Sunday with the British Prime Minister, he turned down his request for Britain probing the Pakistanis detained after (the) Mumbai attacks," Gilani's office said.[...]

He said he told Gordon Brown that if there were any proofs, these persons will be prosecuted under the law of Pakistan," it said.