Rice urges tough line on Pakistan trip
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has arrived in Pakistan, where she urged leaders to give a robust response to last week's attacks in Mumbai.
India says the attackers came from Pakistan, but Islamabad denies any involvement.
An official at the US embassy in Islamabad said that Dr Rice would be holding meetings with Pakistani Government officials on a variety of regional issues.
Dr Rice has flown in from India, and her visit is being seen as one that is aimed at minimising the tensions that have arisen between the two neighbours, both of the nuclear armed after the Mumbai attacks.
Pakistan has expressed its sorrow over the killings there, but has cast doubt on Indian allegations the perpetrators were Pakistani.
While on the plane to Islamabad, she said her discussions would address the need for all states to take a very tough line on what she called the global threat of extremism and terrorism.
- BBC
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