Blair backs India's stand

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, OCT. 3. Expressing solidarity with India's stand on tackling terrorism on a global scale, the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair, today told his counterpart, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, that terrorism could not be dealt with in compartments and had to be ``viewed globally and tackled globally.'' During the 10-minute telephonic conversation with Mr. Vajpayee, Mr. Blair expressed deep sympathies and condolences to the victims of the suicide car bomb attack outside the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on October 1. ``This is the kind of terrorism governments should cooperate in rooting out,'' Mr. Blair told Mr. Vajpayee.

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