LONDON, July 20: British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday Pakistan was willing to deal with those madressahs which were preaching extremism. “I have spoken to President Musharraf about this. There is will, desire, willingness on the part of the Pakistani Government to deal with those madressahs that are preaching this type of extremism,” he told the House of Commons while responding to a question asked by the leader of the Conservative party Michael Howard during question hour here on Monday.

Mr Blair said the roots of extremism go very deep and that is not always to be found in our own country but in other countries as well.

He said the government was mulling over to convene a conference of main countries who had been affected by extremism related issues.

“And we also are looking at the possibility of holding a conference which will bring together some of the main countries” who had been closely involved in these issues, he said.

Mr Blair however said that we need to be very very clear about this, the terrorists would use all sorts of issues to justify what they do, the roots of which were not only be found in this country alone.

And therefore international action is also necessary,” said Mr Blair.—APP