Pakistan Pressures West to Rein in India

In a thinly veiled message to the US, Pakistan officials have threatened to withdraw troops fighting Islamists along Afghanistan if India builds up forces along the border it shares with Pakistan. Furious Indian officials have linked the deadly Mumbai terror operation to Pakistan. "If something happens on that front, the war on terror won't be our priority," a Pakistani senior security said ominously. "We'll take out everything from the western border."

His threat was clearly aimed at pressuring the US to temper India's response to the attacks, reports the Times of London. The US is faced with a dilemma of appeasing both nations, while India's vulnerable coalition government is under pressure to respond swiftly to the terror attacks in the run-up to the national elections in spring.
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