New Delhi - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday
assured his British counterpart Gordon Brown all possible help in
investigations into the failed car bombings in London and Glasgow,
news reports said.
Two India doctors have been detained - one in Britain and the
other in Australia - in connection with the plots.
Singh told a group of women journalists in the Indian capital that
he had spoken to Brown and assured him that India would cooperate in
the investigations into the terrorist plots, PTI news agency and NDTV
television network reported.
During the annual interaction with women journalists Singh also
said he was worried about stereotyping of Indians in Britain.
Labelling Indians and Pakistanis as terrorists is avoidable, he said.
He said there were misguided youth in any society and this was not
community-specific.
'We should not fix labels like Muslims or non-Muslims. It won't
help us in understanding the situation or dealing with it. It is very
stereotype to classify a person,' he said.
'A terrorist is a terrorist and he has no religion or community,'
he said, adding, 'It is wrong to label any community or country. We
have to look for solutions.'
If any community was targeted, it would create new sets of
grievances, he said.
Singh also said it was wrong to draw instant conclusions about the
detained doctors.
He was quoted as saying he could not sleep after watching the
their mothers being interviewed on Indian television channels.
The two doctors who have been detained are both from the southern
Indian city of Bangalore.
Sabeel Ahmed, who worked at Runcorn Hospital in Cheshire, northern
Britain, was picked up by the police in Liverpool. Mohammed Haneef
was detained in Brisbane in Australia. The man who drove the jeep in
Glasgow and is badly burned has also been identified as an Indian
doctor.
Ahmed and Haneef reportedly knew each other and worked in the same
hospital in Britain before the latter moved to Australia.
The families of Ahmed and Haneef insist that they are innocent.
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