India, Pak must work as one: US Chief of Staffs

FOR PEACE: Mullen arrived in Pak on Monday on his second visit since the Mumbai attacks.

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Islamabad: The top US military officer has sought to defuse tensions between Pakistan and India, urging Islamabad to use the Mumbai attacks as an opportunity to work with India to fight extremism.

India and the United States have blamed Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) for the attacks which have provoked a sharp rise in rhetoric between the countries which have fought three wars since 1947.

US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen arrived in Pakistan on Monday on his second visit since last month's attacks and met army chief General Ashfaq Kayani and the head of the military's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, Lieutenant-General Ahmed Shujaa Pasha, the embassy said.

''Mullen encouraged the Pakistani leaders to use this tragic event as an opportunity to forge more productive ties with India and to seek ways in which both nations can combat the common threat of extremism together,'' the US embassy said in a statement.

Tension between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan has simmered since last month's assault on India's financial heart, which killed 179 people, and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday said the armed forces were fully capable of defending the country if war eventuated.

Pakistan denies any links to the assault, blaming ''non-state actors'', and has promised to cooperate in investigations.

''He thanked both men for their efforts -- and the efforts of the Pakistani government -- to arrest members of Lashkar-e-Toiba and other extremist groups involved in the attacks'', the embassy said in a release on Tuesday.