By SPA,
London : The United States has told Pakistan it expects nothing short of complete cooperation in investigations into the terrorist rampage in India.
Pakistan’s response will be a test of the will of the new civilian government, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday, according to a report of Associated Press.
“What we are emphasizing to the Pakistani government is the need to follow the evidence wherever it leads, ” Rice said. “I don’t want to jump to any conclusions myself on this, but I do think that this is a time for complete, absolute, total transparency and cooperation and that’s what we expect.”
At President George W. Bush’s direction, Rice is cutting short a European trip to visit India later this week. Attacks spanning three days killed more than 170 people in the Indian commercial capital Mumbai, including six Americans.
“We share the grief and the anger of the Indian people but of course Americans were also killed in this attack and they were killed deliberately because they were Americans, ” Rice said during a press conference aboard her plane en route to London. “That makes this of special interest and concern to the United States.”