David Miliband visits India and Pakistan

David Miliband talks with India's foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee before their meeting in New Delhi 13 January 2009. Miliband said that he believed the Pakistan state did not direct the Mumbai attacks, contradicting accusations from the India government that state agencies were involved Photograph: B Mathur/Reuters

David Miliband enters a cowshed during his visit to Semra village, India Photograph: AP

David Miliband exits a hut while ruling Congress Party leader Rahul Gandhi follows, during a visit to Gandhi's constituency of Amethi in India Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

David Miliband laughs as Indian lawmaker Rahul Gandhi looks on in Semra village, India, where Miliband spent a night in the house of a Dalit family, the group once known in India as 'untouchables', at the invitation of Gandhi, according to news reports Photograph: AP

David Miliband, centre, and Indian lawmaker Rahul Gandhi, left, walk in Semra village, India, as a village woman looks on Photograph: AP

David Miliband delivers a speech during his visit to the Taj Mahal hotel, one of several sites attacked by militants in the November terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India Photograph: Rajanish Kakade/AP

Pakistani foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, left, listens to David Miliband during a meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad, Pakistan. Miliband arrived for talks with Pakistani leaders, after urging Islamabad to show zero tolerance toward militant groups blamed for the Mumbai attacks Photograph: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images