Obama fields tough questions from Indian students
In Mumbai, he defends the United States' support of Pakistan and urges India to gradually mend fences with its neighbor. The president also calls for easing trade restrictions on the U.S.
 First lady Michelle Obama turned in an enthusiastic performance of the Kholi dance. "She was moving," the president said of his wife later. (EPA) |
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Reporting from Mumbai, India, and Washington —
President Obama, challenged by Indian students Sunday to explain why the United States had not labeled Pakistan a terrorist state, defended his administration's efforts to help the Pakistani government root out extremism and urged Indians to remember their own stake in promoting their longtime rival's stability.Obama's call to India for a gradual rapprochement with Pakistan, made during a sometimes lively town hall-style meeting at St. Xavier's College in the Indian city of Mumbai, is likely to be repeated at a speech Monday to the Parliament in New Delhi.
