 British Prime Minister Tony Blair has reassured Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf that a leaked intelligence report criticizing Pakistan's ability to fight terrorism was not government policy.A spokesman for Blair's office said the pair had discussed the report, broadcast by the BBC on Wednesday, at a meeting in London."President Musharraf accepted straight away that this so-called document was not government policy and there was no further discussion about it," the spokesman said.The document, from a think-tank associated with Britain's Defence Ministry, accused Pakistan's intelligence agency, ISI, of indirectly supporting al Qaeda and Taliban militants in Afghanistan.It suggested the ISI should be dismantled and Musharraf himself should resign -- a notion the Pakistani leader strongly rejected in a BBC interview on Wednesday....
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