WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has expressed concern over escalation of India and Pakistan tensions after Islamabad redeployed troops to their border, the State Department said on Monday.Rice spoke to President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee over telephone, cautioning against raising tensions, it said. “She has made it part of her conversations to note that tensions are already high, that neither side should be taking actions that increase those tensions,” said department spokesman Gordon Duguid. Rice had also noted in the talks that Pakistan had ìmade some positive steps but that these steps need to be continuous, that we need to have both sides work together to find the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks
