Blair phones Musharraf

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ISLAMABAD, Dec 13: British prime minister Tony Blair who talked to President Pervez Musharraf by telephone on Wednesday evening for about 20 minutes and expressed the delight that the military and political campaign in Afghanistan were progressing so well and “they agreed that the net was closing in on both Osama bin Laden and Mulla Omar”, according to coalition information sources here.

The sources said that the president assured the prime minister that Pakistan would do everything it could to help nab the wanted two men.

They also agreed that the outcome of the Bonn conference marked a very good beginning in the process of establishing a broad-based government in Afghanistan and hoped that international community would do everything it could to help establish interim administration in Kabul, the coalition sources stated.

Both the Pakistani president and the British prime minister said that their countries would do what they could to assist in the implementation of that process in Afghanistan.—H.A

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