Ahmadinejad urges India to calm situation

TEHRAM (Agencies) - Iranian President Ahmadinejad on Saturday urged India and Pakistan to work together against terrorism, reports Iranian media.
Iran's president said India should take measures to ease tension with its neighbours, after Pakistan deployed its troops to Indian borders.
"Iran believes that powers outside the region aim to damage growing relations between Iran, India and other countries in the region," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in a Saturday telephone conversation.
Ahmadinejad called on the two nuclear-armed neighbors to adopt coordinated measures to fight terrorism in the region, while warning them against any action that would have dire consequences for regional countries.
"The terrorist attacks in Mumbai targeted peace, stability and security of the region," he added.
According to Indian media, Manmohan Singh spoke to President Ahmednijad and is understood to have asked him to pressure Islamabad to do more to end cross-border terrorism. Singh conveyed to Ahmednijad that Pakistan has to take concrete action to stop cross-border terror and by being in denial mode would not help, sources said.