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India PM: 'Nobody Wants War'

Mumbai Terror

Rhetoric eases amid fears country will attack Pakistan.

The Mumbai terror attacks, which killed more than 170 people, ratcheted up tensions between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan, but Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says he would not unilaterally attack Pakistan. Singh would employ international pressure to force Pakistan to crack down on terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is suspected of being behind the November 26 attacks. "The issue is not war. The issue is terror and territory in Pakistan being used to provoke, to aid and abet terrorism," Singh said. "Nobody wants war."

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