LONDON, Oct 17: Sidestepping a query about UK’s presumed role in nudging Gen Pervez Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto into a power-sharing agreement, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Pakistani politics was a matter for Pakistani politicians and that the UK had nothing to do with it.

“We always had close links with Pakistan, but we have nothing to do with its internal politics, that is the matter of Pakistani politicians,” reiterated Mr Miliband when asked if he was satisfied with the latest political developments in Pakistan.

The foreign secretary was talking to Dawn briefly at an Eid reception hosted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office here on Tuesday evening.

Later, addressing the gathering Mr Miliband identified religious extremism, violence, global inequalities, climate change and nuclear proliferation as the most serious dangers facing the world and said that all of the humanity in all its diversity needs to come together to meet “these shared challenges”.

He said no one country could opt out of the task of challenging these ‘shared dangers”.

He said the differences that existed between diverse nations needed to be bridged through active involvement of all nations in confronting these shared challenges.