Islamabad, Apr 27: Britain and Pakistan on Monday expressed a firm resolve to jointly fight against terrorism.

Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani addressing a joint press conference along with his British counterpart Gordon Brown, said Pakistani is united in the battle against terrorism.

“Britain and Pakistan will jointly fight the menace of terrorism,” The News quoted him, as saying. Gilani said Pakistan will continue to play its part toward stabilizing Afghanistan.

Kabul - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday in Kabul that the world could not tolerate the existence of terrorist bases in border areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, saying a new strategy would be unveiled this week.

Brown arrived on a surprise visit in Afghanistan on Monday morning and met with President Hamid Karzai to discuss his plans to fight the "crucible of terrorism" in the border region, to be formally announced in the House of Commons this week.

London, Apr 27: A petition on 10 Downing Street’s own website calling for Gordon Brown to resign as Prime Minister has passed the 10,000-signature mark.

By 7.00 last night nearly 10,000 people had signed a petition on the Downing Street website calling for the prime minister to resign. The petition simply states: “We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to resign.”

Dr Kalvis Jansons, an academic mathematician, who describes himself as a disillusioned “traditional Labour supporter”, posted the petition.

London, Apr. 25 : The Gordon Brown Government has revealed that it plans to monitor every phone call, email or website visit.

Plans for this exercise are to be unveiled next week, reports The Telegraph.

According to the paper, the proposals will give police and security services the power to snoop on every single communication made by the public with the data then likely to be stored in an enormous national database.

London, Apr. 17 : British Prime Minister Gordon Brown finally bowed to pressure and said sorry for the "Smear Gate" e-mails sent by one of his closest aides, Damian McBride.

Opposition politicians welcomed Brown's apology, but said it had come late and left questions unanswered.

The Government hoped it would draw a line under the affair, which erupted after emails between McBride, and pro-Labour blogger Derek Draper became public.

London, Apr. 15 : Four former Labour ministers have blamed British Prime Minister Gordon Brown for allowing former aide Damian McBride to draw up plans to smear senior Conservatives.

According to The Independent, the ministers suggested that McBride was carrying out Brown’s wishes rather than acting as a freelance operator.

They joined Conservative leader David Cameron in demanding an urgent shake-up of the Downing Street machine.