October 09, 2008	Thursday	Shawwal 9, 1429

LONDON, Oct 8: UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Tuesday said the contribution of ‘faith communities’ to British society and to its politics helped bring values back to the forefront of national life.

“This is important,” he said at an Eidul Fitr reception he hosted, “because in the end politics is about your head... and it is also about deepest values, about justice, about responsibility and citizenship that bring us together.”

He said his guests were at the reception not as foreigners but as “valued friends, neighbours (and) fellow citizens of this country”.

The reception was attended by many prominent Britons of Pakistani origin.