Endorsing India’s stand that no cause is good enough to justify terrorism, Britain on Thursday said that it will discuss with Pakistan “frankly, clearly and openly” on the need to reduce and eliminate terror from India.  

Addressing a joint press conference with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the end of their discussions, visiting British PM David Cameron said, “We want to work with Pakistan to make it fight LeT and Afghan or Pakistan Taliban. Pakistan government has taken steps and it needs to take further steps to reduce terrorism in Afghanistan, India and the streets of London.”

He was replying to a question as to what the international community would do to see that Pakistan does not export terror, especially to India, as stated by him in Bangalore on Wednesday.

At the same time, he said Pakistan should be encouraged to take steps to see that terror is reduced.

“I think the right thing is to have discussion with Pakistan frankly, clearly and openly. Next week, I will have discussions with President of Pakistan,” he said.

On his part, Singh said expressed the hope that Pakistan would honour its commitment not to allow its territory for terror against India given to him and his predecessors.

“We believe that Pakistan should be as serious in tackling terrorism on its western border as on the eastern borders. I sincerely hope that the world community would use its good offices to promote this,” Singh said.

Singh, in his opening remarks, said the two countries discussed Afghanistan and agreed that the terrorism was the “single biggest threat” to the region.

“We agreed to further intensify cooperation in the area of countering terrorism,” he said about the talks between the two leaders which he noted was “wide ranging and extremely productive,” he said.

Singh said that he believe after 9/11, the world community has recognised that terrorism constitutes a very important threat to all civilised societies in the world.

“Further there is an agreement that there is no cause is good enough to justify to resort to terrorism,” he said.

Cameron said the Indian Prime Minister was absolutely right in saying that terrorism cannot be allowed.

India and Britain have also decided to constitute India-UK CEO Forum and India-UK Infrastructure Group besides doubling the quantum of trade in the next five years, Singh said.

Cameron, on his part, said Britain looks forward to early conclusion of India-EU trade agreement.