New Delhi, October 7
With New Delhi taking up strongly with London the recent assassination attempt on Lt Gen KS Brar (retd), Britain has assured India of its determination to bring the perpetrators of the attack to justice.

In a letter to External Affairs Minister SM Krishna, British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Office William Hague also assured New Delhi that Britain would continue updating Indian officials about the progress of investigations in the case.

Hague conveyed his “shock” at the attack on Brar in London on September 30 and hoped for his “quick recovery”, official sources here said.

Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai, who was in London earlier this week, is believed to have taken up with the British authorities the attack on Brar by four unidentified men in Old Quebec Street near Oxford Street in London last Sunday.

Britain has taken seriously the attack on Brar, who led ‘Operation Bluestar’ in 1984 to flush out ‘pro-Khalistan’ militants from Golden Temple.

“It (the attack on Brar) is of great concern to the UK. We don’t want these people here exporting their terrorist views because they represent a real threat to people in the UK apart from anything else. It is regarded as being as unacceptable and despicable as people in India do,’’ British Foreign Office Minister in-charge of India Hugo Swire had said. — PTI