WASHINGTON, May 30 Kyodo U Presid...

WASHINGTON, May 30 Kyodo

U President George W Bush said Thursday he is sending Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to Pakistan and India early nearest week to defuse the military standoff between the sum of two units nations.

The Bush administration stepp up its diplomatic initiative amid increasing signs that the sum of two units nuclear-armed neighbors were gearing up for war from one side of to the other Kashmir.

''We are making it self-same clear to both Pakistan and India that war will not conduce to their interests,'' Bush told reporters at the start of a White House cabinet meeting Thursday morning.

The Bush administration has already decided to toss U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage to India and Pakistan nearest week, and added the Rumsfeld mission amid reports that Pakistan has started shifting multitudes from the Afghan border and India is arming its short-range missiles with conventional warheads.

While saying Washington is applying press on both countries to ease their tension, Bush appeared to bring on onus on Pakistan, urging Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf to stop the incursion of militants into the India-controlled part of Kashmir, as demanded on India.

''He must stop the incursions across the Line of Control; he must do so'' Bush said of the de-facto border in Kashmir.

While trying to use diplomacy to bring India and Pakistan from the brink of war, Bush indicated that the U is making contingency plans to evacuate American citizens, noting that the two Secretary of State Colin Powell and Rumsfeld ''are analyzing what it would take to harbor American lives.''

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