Canberra, Dec 1 : Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has urged calm between India and Pakistan following the terrorist attacks in Mumbai that killed 195 people and strained relations between the two neighbouring countries.

New Delhi has accused “elements in Pakistan” of involvement in the three-day siege that wreaked havoc on Mumbai. Islamabad, however, denies any role in the attacks, the Daily Times reported.

Washington, Dec 1: Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani, has said that those who staged the Mumbai attacks were “non-state actors” and this is no time for India and Pakistan to blame each other but to work together to fight terroism.

Haqqani told ABC in an interview on Sunday if India moves its forces to the border with Pakistan, it will leave his country no option but to take steps to defend itself.

Troops will have to be pulled back from the border with Afghanistan “and nobody wants that,” the Daily Times reported.

Washington, Dec 1: US intelligence officials are searching urgently for clues that might identify the attackers and to ease tensions between India and Pakistan, even as Indian officials claim “elements in Pakistan” were involved.

FBI agents are in India to investigate the attacks in Mumbai that killed at least 195 people, including six Americans. US State Department has warned citizens still in India’s financial capital that their lives remain at risk, CBS News reported.

A US counter-terrorism official said some “signatures of the attack” were consistent with the work of Pakistani militant groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed and reported to be linked to al Qaeda.

Washington, Nov 30 : The aftermath of Mumbai terror strikes could provoke heightened violence across South Asia, if Indian and Pakistani leaders allowed these atrocities to undo the recent rapprochement between their two governments, an editorial in the Boston Globe has said.

It said: “Those leaders will come under intense pressure to stoke nationalist passions but they need to do the opposite: exercise restraint and practise prudent statesmanship.”

Washington, Nov 30 : Even as the Mumbai terror strikes have stunned the entire South Asia, a number of Pakistani-American organisations have issued strong condemnations of the outrage and expressed sympathy for those who lost their lives.

The Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America (APPNA) denounced the brutal attacks in which around 200 people are feared dead. The group said it believes that no cause justifies indiscriminate attacks against civilians and no religion endorses terrorism.

Islamabad, Nov 30 : The Mumbai terror attacks seem to have stalled the Indo-Pak peace process, as the Secretary-level meetings on Sir Creek, which were scheduled for December 2-3, and the talks on Wullar and water issues in Islamabad stand cancelled.

The meeting of India-Pakistan Joint Commission on Environment was also called off, though there are chances that an emergency meeting of the Joint Anti-Terror Mechanism might take place, reported the Daily Times.