By IRNA,
Islamabad : Insisting that the steps taken by Pakistan in the wake of the Mumbai attacks are ‘not nearly enough’, the US has advised it to keep on working to ‘really deal’ with terrorism to help ease the ‘crisis’ with India.
Neither India nor Pakistan wanted to escalate tensions and “no one was speaking in belligerent language,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said at a function in Washington.
“And if Pakistan continues to work to really deal with the terrorism problem, and if India can do the hard work of both helping to bring the perpetrators to justice and trying to prevent the next attack, then I think we can get through this crisis,” Rice said.
Asked if she believed the civilian Government in Pakistan has control over the military and the ISI, she said civilians were very much in charge and there have been some “positive” steps “though they’re not nearly enough to this point”.
“I have to say that I didn’t hear a different line from the military and from the civilians. In fact, I heard from the military that they want the civilian government to succeed.”