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Suspected U.S. missile strike kills 2 in northwest Pakistan

However, American leaders have previously said the strikes have helped kill some important militant leaders who use Pakistani territory as safe havens from which to plot attacks on U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

India has blamed a Pakistan-based militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, for last month's attacks in Mumbai. The U.S. has said Lashkar-e-Taiba, which has long been active in the Pakistani-Indian dispute over the Himalayan region of Kashmir, has forged links with al-Qaida.

Pakistan's powerful spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, has long been suspected of maintaining ties to Lashkar-e-Taiba, which was officially banned in 2002, and other militant groups, apparently in case it needs them as assets against India or Afghanistan.

While in India, Kerry urged Pakistan's fledgling civilian government to bring the ISI under its full control to help stem terrorism in the region.

"It is imperative that the intelligence services of Pakistan not be able to make its own choices or operate outside of the standards that we have a right to expect," Kerry said.

Pakistan has denied any official link to the Mumbai attacks. In an interview with Newsweek magazine published over the weekend, President Asif Ali Zardari insisted, "There is no supportive interaction with our intelligence (agencies) and the LeT."

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Monday that Pakistan will not let British investigators question suspects it detains over the Mumbai attacks, turning down a request from British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Gilani said in parliament that he also told Brown that "if there were any proofs, these persons will be prosecuted under the law of Pakistan," Gilani's office said.

Pakistan has pledged full cooperation with the investigation, arrested at least two key suspects and clamped down on an Islamic charity the U.N. branded a front for terrorism.

Brown said cooperation among investigators was vital to defeat transnational terrorism and that three-quarters of the most serious terrorist plots investigated in Britain had links to al-Qaida in Pakistan.

Brown also has asked India to let British police question the only gunman captured alive during the Mumbai attacks. India has made no public response.

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