Rice Urges Pakistan To Cooperate in Mumbai Probe

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LONDON: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday called on Pakistan to show "absolute" cooperation and "total transparency" with India in the investigation of who was behind the Mumbai attacks.

"I don't want to jump to any conclusions myself on this, but I do think that this is the time for a complete, absolute, total transparency and cooperation and that is what we expect," she told reporters accompanying her.

India's Deputy Home Minister Shakeel Ahmad said Monday that the Mumbai attackers were all from Pakistan, the strongest such claim since the bloodbath that left more than 170 people dead.

Speaking at the start of a trip which will include a hastily-arranged visit to India, she added: "It is extremely important that there would be the highest levels of cooperation between Pakistan and India at this point and that means all institutions.

"And I assume that there is going to be a law enforcement cooperation as well as intelligence cooperation in getting to the bottom of this," she added, before arriving in London.

She added: "What we are emphasising to the Pakistani government is the need to follow the evidence wherever it leads and to do so in the most committed and firmest possible way."


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