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WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld will visit India and Pakistan next week amid renewed tensions between the two rival neighbors.
According to reports published in the Indian and Pakistani newspapers Friday, Rumsfeld arrives in New Delhi on Nov. 5 from Islamabad after a meeting with Pakistani leaders.
Tensions between Pakistan and India have increased since the Sept. 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington.
Last week U.S. officials expressed the fear that their rapidly deteriorating relations could harm the international coalition against terrorism.
Both India and Pakistan are members of this coalition. When the United States vowed to destroy terrorism bases in Afghanistan, India offered logistic support and also sought U.S. support for fighting Pakistan-inspired separatists in the disputed Kashmir region.
The United States, however, accepted a similar offer from Pakistan which shares a 1,560-mile long border with Afghanistan and is now using five military bases in Pakistan.
As U.S. launched airstrikes into Afghanistan, India accused Pakistan of sending terrorists to Kashmir while Pakistan accused India of amassing troops on its border.
And on Thursday, India said Pakistan has deployed two armored divisions along its northern and western borders.
An armored usually has three armored brigades of 150 tanks each and is backed by an infantry division of 17,000 soldiers.
According to Indian officials, the build-up has taken place over the last two weeks. But Pakistani officials have dismissed the Indian claims as "exaggerated" and said that their troops were engaged in "routine winter exercises as the Indians conducted last month."
Although officials in Washington and other Western capitals do not see India and Pakistan going to war yet, "the situation is grave enough for the Bush administration to send its secretary defense," said an Indian official.
Rumsfeld is expected to urge both India and Pakistan to take immediate steps to prevent the situation from getting worse.
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