Bush: U.S., India 'Closer Than Ever'

President Wraps Up 3-Day India Visit; Heads Next To Pakistan

(CBS/AP) 
"Outsourcing is a big problem for the U.S. because Americans lose jobs but the flip side of the coin is that U.S. retailers want to sell to India and as long as the president levels the playing field the agreement can benefit American workers," Falk added. "The message was that trade and investment must be a 2-way street and India needs to remove its barriers to U.S. business."

Mr. Bush spent much of Friday in Hyderabad, one of India's high-tech hubs that's driving economic expansion.

He met with young entrepreneurs at a business school, and visited an agricultural college that is researching biotechnology and ways to increase yields and output. Roughly 65 percent of India's population makes its living off agriculture, but the nation's farm sector lags behind.

In another part of the city that Mr. Bush didn't see, black flags flew above buildings in the predominantly Muslim Charminar quarter, where shops were closed in protest. Several hundred communist and Muslim demonstrators, chanting "Bush hands off India" and "Bush go home," carried posters of Osama bin Laden and burned an effigy of the president.

"We are protesting against George Bush because he is a warmonger," said B.V. Raghavulu, a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

Once Mr. Bush returns to Washington over the weekend, he must sell skeptics in Congress on the deal he inked with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the United States to provide nuclear fuel, reactors and know-how to help India meet its growing demand for power.

As the president headed to Pakistan, Mr. Bush aides said officials were satisfied adequate security precautions were in place. National security adviser Stephen Hadley acknowledged, though, that "this is not a risk-free undertaking."

Just a day before Mr. Bush arrived, a suicide car bomber killed an American diplomat and three others in a strike near the U.S. consulate in the southern port city of Karachi, a hotbed of Islamic militancy hundreds of miles from Islamabad, where the president was staying.

Despite the attack, security and terrorism expert Neil Livingstone says it's safe for the president to be in Pakistan as long as the right precautions are taken.

"It is safe being in a very dangerous country but the keys are speed and unpredictability," Livingstone told CBS News' The Early Show.

"He's going to go into Islamabad for a very short period of time. It's going to be unpredictable. When Clinton went there six years ago there were so many vehicles in the convoy, nobody knew where the president was at all. It was like a show game. They'll do the same thing for President Bush on this."

Mr. Bush has promised to raise with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf the need to do more to hunt down al Qaeda members. Osama bin Laden is believed to be hiding along the porous and mountainous border with Afghanistan.

He also will talk about the need for additional democratic reforms.

But a public show of solidarity for the Pakistani leader, who has survived repeated assassination attempts in part because of his support for the U.S. war on terror, was taking center stage.

"I will meet with President Musharraf to discuss Pakistan's vital cooperation in the war on terror and our efforts to foster economic and political development so that we can reduce the appeal of radical Islam," Mr. Bush said. "I believe that a prosperous, democratic Pakistan will be a steadfast partner for America, a peaceful neighbor for India and a force for freedom and moderation in the Arab world."