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<b>NEW DELHI (AFP) – A senior US State Department official called Monday for <span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>joint action against terrorism, including against groups based in Pakistan. Richard Boucher, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, arrived in India last week. </span>

He made the comments after meetings with business leaders and government officials. <span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>“The two sides discussed joint efforts to fight terrorism and felt that terrorism should be fought in all places and all its forms,” Boucher said after a three-hour meeting with government officials.</span>

“We all know there is terrorism in the (South Asia) region. <span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>Some of the terrorism is in Pakistan. Some of the groups that have designs against India still have pieces in Pakistan,” he told reporters.</span></b>

Online adds: US has asked Pakistan and India to settle their diplomatic row in an amicable and peaceful way and avoid further augmentation of tensions.

US State department official in a statement said that tensions between Pakistan and India are dangerous for peace efforts in the region and the need of the hour is that both the countries should settle the issue in an amicable way and avoid further confrontation.

However official said that Washington regards expulsion of diplomats by the two nuclear rival countries as a matter of normal diplomatic process.

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