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WRAPUP 1-Rice pushes Pakistan, seeks to curb India response

Thu Dec 4, 2008 2:47am IST
 
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* Rice says Pakistan must cooperate in Mumbai attacks probe

* Top U.S. military commander visits Islamabad

By Sue Pleming

NEW DELHI, Dec 4 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed Pakistan to cooperate fully in the probe into the Mumbai attacks but she also warned India against any action that could stoke regional conflict.

In a delicate balancing act aimed at curbing tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours, Rice said she had gone to India to show the Bush administration's solidarity and empathy with the Indian people after the attacks on Mumbai that killed nearly 200 people, including six Americans.

"This is the time for everybody to cooperate," Rice told a news conference in New Delhi late on Wednesday.

But she stressed Pakistan must help India in its investigation into the attacks on the financial hub last week.

"Pakistan has a special responsibility to do so and should do so transparently, fully, urgently and that is the message that we have delivered (to Pakistan)," she said.  Continued...

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