Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and\nhis reaction was "constructive" and "not overly problematic."
The Bush administration made it clear that Pyongyang stood to face unspecified consequences should it proceed with its nuclear test, that some speculate will take place this Sunday or next Monday.
As a Congressman put it, "I don't think we should sell F-16s to India either. Both are poor countries. F-16s are not going to produce any more wealth for the people of Pakistan or India."
Human Rights Watch has asked Washington to explain intelligence failure that led to the killing of 15 children in two recent attacks by American forces in Afghanistan.
US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz got a taste of the mood among a section of the population when he paid a visit to Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
It will also launch a publicity blitz in afghan and Pakistani countryside to help trace him.
Congressman Ted Poe, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, introduced the Pakistan State Sponsor of Terrorism Act in the US House of Representatives on Thursday.
It is time for the Congress and the Bush administration to recognise the importance India plays in the region and the world, the Democratic Congressman said.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke to External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha on Friday night for a general exchange of views ahead of a visit next week by a top Bush administration official to India.
'It was international diplomacy led by the US that went to the task of talking to these two nations,' he said.
The US deputy secretary of state said the Bush administration would 'go as far up the chain of command as necessary' to punish the guilty.\n\n
Bush administration 'ignoring' international law in treatment of detainees, especially children, at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba
McCain and Sen. Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat, said the U.S. public needs to be told more clearly and realistically the difficult challenges in Iraq.
"A Biden administration will be mostly positive for India," said Rick Rossow from the Centre for Strategic and International Studies think tank. "I expect most positive areas of cooperation -- notably defence -- to be maintained," he said.
The Bush administration has said Kim Jong II, leader of North Korea, will "rue the day" he made the decision to go in for the nuclear tests as it (the US) is looking for ways to make it "very costly" for Pyongyang.
The issue figured in the talks between External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh and American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who visited India recently.
A senior former Obama administration official said if another attack would have happened like that, it would 'quickly escalates into a regional war'.
'In the long run, I don't foresee major ramifications [about Trudeau's allegations].' 'There's just enough hypocrisy among Western nations for India to douse the outrage.'
The Democrats, especially the Biden administration, wanted to deliver a sharper message to Mr Modi than would be possible in a formal summit setting. So, why not get the most prominent Democrat in decades to deliver it?, explains Shekhar Gupta.
'We don't have to be the world's policeman. We don't have to impose our values. But we need to lead and when we pull back as we've done, you begin to see exactly what happens -- the voids are filled by threats of terror that countries have to suffer with, including India.'
'The West has always opposed a strong nationalist leader in India and Narendra Modi is no exception.' 'The West prefers weak leaders who are amenable to Western pressure and Mr Modi's independent stance is not to the liking of the West,' asserts Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
