Pak, Britain on verge of extradition deal

LONDON: Britain has confirmed it is on the verge of signing its very first extradition treaty with Pakistan, just hours after president Musharraf admitted, for the first time, that there was a link between a Lahore madrassa and the 7/7 suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer.
Late on Friday, Musharraf confirmed for the first time that Tanweer had attended the madrassa, which is considered a hotbed of militant indoctrination.Meanwhile, the British Home Office said the UK was "in the final stages"of negotiating an extradition treaty that could see suspected terrorists linked to 7/7 flown to London for questioning.
Musharraf���s admission comes after months of an acerbic Pakistani response to British accusations that 7/7���s three British Pakistani bombers had been radicalised in Pakistan.
The three British Pakistani bombers���Mohammed Siddique Khan, Hasib Hussain and Tanweer���are said to have travelled to Pakistan in the months before London���s multiple bomb attacks. Security agencies say that there, they made contact with several men linked to Kashmiri militancy, including Osama Nazir of the banned Jaish-e-Mohammed and Zeeshan Siddique, who is thought to have fought the Indian Army in J&K.
Musharraf said on Friday that his government was "investigating...we would like move against any organisation that helped him (Tanweer) in any way."In the weeks since the London bombings, British PM Tony Blair has been pressing Pakistan to crackdown hard on radical madrassas and preachers of hate.
British police and intelligence agencies have said that a formal extradition treaty with Pakistan would ease the process of investigating links between British Pakistani radicals and their counterparts in Pakistan.