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(CNN) — U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has told Pakistan it expects complete cooperation in finding the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks in neighboring India.

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"What we are emphasizing to the Pakistani government is the need to follow the evidence wherever it leads," Rice told reporters traveling with her to London.

"I don’t want to jump to any conclusions myself on this, but I do think that this is a time for complete, absolute, total transparency and cooperation and that’s what we expect."

President George W. Bush ordered Rice to cut short her tour of European capitals this week to visit India after attacks spanning three days killed 179 people in the Indian commercial capital Mumbai.

The attacks have damaged India’s already strained relationship with Pakistan, which says India has yet to offer any proof to support allegations that a Pakistani-based Islamic militant group was behind the massacre.

Nevertheless Pakistan’s prime minister predicted Monday that the attacks would not damage relations between the two countries, and promised that his government would act "very responsibly."

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"With India, we had good relations, but I feel sorry that this incident naturally disturbed the people of India for which we are very sympathetic," PM Yousuf Raza Gilani told CNN.

Gilani said his government would provide "full cooperation" with Indian authorities investigating the attacks, but he said India has yet to present Pakistan with evidence regarding the massacre.

"I am again telling you Pakistan will act very responsibly, and we have talked to our friends that they should use their good offices to defuse the situation," he said.

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