Pakistan promises to defuse tension over Mumbai attacks

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) - Last week's massacre in the Indian financial capital, Mumbai, won't lead to an escalation of tensions with Pakistan, the Pakistani prime minister predicted Monday, and he promised his government would act "very responsibly."

"With India, we had good relations, but I feel sorry that this incident naturally disturbed the people of India for which we are very sympathetic," Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told CNN.

Gilani said his government will provide "full cooperation" with Indian authorities investigating the attacks, which left nearly 180 people dead. But he said India has yet to present Pakistan with evidence regarding the massacre.

"I am again telling you Pakistan will act very responsibly, and we have talked to our friends that they should use their good offices to defuse the situation," he said.

Police in Mumbai have revised the death toll from Wednesday's attacks and the sieges that followed downward to 179 dead and about 300 wounded. The official death toll does not include at least nine gunmen killed in three days of battles with police and the Indian military, police said Monday.