Britain remains optimistic about the listing of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist even as it has been prodding Pakistan to take “irreversible action” against terrorists operating from its soil, UK high commissioner Dominic Asquith said on Friday.

The Easter Sunday suicide attacks in Sri Lanka, which killed eight British nationals, had brought home “how terror affects us” and underlined the need to work together to deal with the menace, Asquith told a news briefing.

Britain remains optimistic about the listing of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist even as it has been prodding Pakistan to take “irreversible action” against terrorists operating from its soil, UK high commissioner Dominic Asquith said on Friday.

The Easter Sunday suicide attacks in Sri Lanka, which killed eight British nationals, had brought home “how terror affects us” and underlined the need to work together to deal with the menace, Asquith told a news briefing.