
Wajid Shamsul Hasan, Pakistan's High Commissioner to the UK, told BBC's Newsnight last night that Britain needed to improve its own system for vetting visa applicants before laying blame on Pakistan.
Asked if there was a problem with the British visa system, he said: "Yes. If they allow us to make inquiries first, if they ask us to scrutinise those people who are seeking visas we can help them. But the thing is they have their own regime."
Britain has been on high security alert ever since the July 2005 attacks in London, which killed 56 people including four suicide bombers, and failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow in June 2007.