Brussels, June 5 -- Former Union Minister MJ Akbar urged the European Union to reject mediation efforts and take a firm stand against Pakistan's long-standing support for terrorism.

He said, "The principal message that we conveyed was that all talk of mediation is irrelevant. The only thing that the EU should do is to tell Pakistan in no uncertain terms that it must end the cycle of barbarism of violence and terrorism that it began on the 22nd of October, 1947, and which continues till this day....If Europe cannot stand up against fascist ethnic cleansing violence, then who will? and if our European friends do not recognise the danger, then it will hurt them...This is the global war against terrorism and particularly against Pakistan-spo...