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US bid to reduce Mumbai tensions Pakistan repeats Mumbai 'promise'
(about 8 hours later)
The US assistant secretary of state is in Pakistan for talks aimed at reducing tensions between India and Pakistan. Pakistan has repeated that it will punish any of its citizens if "credible" evidence is found of their involvement in the Mumbai attacks.
Mr Richard Boucher is due to meet PM Yousuf Raza Gillani and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani made the promise in talks with US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher.
The US is worried that India-Pakistan tension may harm Islamabad's military operations against Islamist militants in the country's north-west. Mr Boucher is in Islamabad seeking to reduce India-Pakistan tensions.
Relations between India and Pakistan have plummeted since November's Mumbai attacks which left 173 dead. The US is worried that worsening ties with India may harm Islamabad's military operations against Islamic militants in the country's north-west.
India has blamed Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) for the attacks. Relations between India and Pakistan have plummeted since the November attacks which left 173 dead.
LeT and the Pakistani government have denied any involvement. India has blamed the banned Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) for the attacks. LeT and the Pakistani government have denied any involvement.
'State actors''State actors'
Mr Boucher's visit comes amid increasing demands by the Indian government that Pakistan dismantle the militant infrastructure in the country and extradite militant leaders who it says masterminded the Mumbai attacks. Mr Boucher arrived in Islamabad as Pakistan received India's dossier of what it says is evidence that the Mumbai assault was launched by people with links to "elements" in Pakistan.
Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram is visiting the US this week as part of an Indian campaign to elicit international support for its demands, reports say. His visit comes amid increasing demands by the Indian government that Pakistan dismantle the militant infrastructure in the country and extradite militant leaders who it says masterminded the Mumbai attacks.
Mr Chidambaram told an Indian television channel on Sunday that the Mumbai attacks, due to their sophistication, could not have been carried out by "non-state" actors, as Pakistan has been insisting. The BBC's Charles Haviland in Islamabad says it is almost inconceivable that Islamabad will hand over any suspect into Indian jurisdiction.
"I presume they are state actors or state-assisted actors, unless the contrary is proved," Mr Chidambaram said. Our correspondent says such a move would have barely any support among the many shades of opinion in Pakistan.
But he says there are some in Pakistan who believe the country will benefit by arresting anyone clearly linked to the assault in India - the question will be whether the new document from Delhi convinces Islamabad that further people must be arrested, and that there must be prosecutions.
Since Mumbai, Pakistan has already detained top LeT leaders. It has also outlawed a charity widely seen as a front for it.
So far, Pakistan has denied that the perpetrators of Mumbai attacks were its nationals.So far, Pakistan has denied that the perpetrators of Mumbai attacks were its nationals.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has said that even if the attackers were Pakistani, they were "non-state" actors and that Pakistan was trying hard to control them.Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has said that even if the attackers were Pakistani, they were "non-state" actors and that Pakistan was trying hard to control them.
There are reports that Pakistan has been moving troops to its eastern border with India in anticipation of an Indian attack. On Sunday Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram said the Mumbai attacks, due to their sophistication, could not have been carried out by "non-state" actors, as Pakistan has been insisting.
Some of these troops have been pulled out of their positions in the north-west where they have been fighting the militants. "I presume they are state actors or state-assisted actors, unless the contrary is proved," Mr Chidambaram told an Indian television channel.
Pakistan's foreign minister called the remarks "speculation".