President Obama continues his visit to India, giving a speech in Mumbai. He called upon India to take a greater stake in assisting stability in neighboring Pakistan.

Saint Xavier's College in Mumbai. Students await the arrival of U.S. President Barack Obama for a town hall style meeting.

Obama in India aiming to bolster economic and geopolitical ties, is walking a tightrope as the U.S. government has also been pouring billions of dollars into India's South Asian rival Pakistan.

[Barack Obama, U.S. President]
"The country that has the biggest stake in Pakistan's success is India. I think that if Pakistan is unstable, that is bad for India. Pakistan stable and prosperous, that is good."

India blames Pakistan for fostering militants and says elements within the Pakistan state were behind the Mumbai attacks in 2008, when Pakistan-based gunmen killed 166 people in a 60-hour rampage through India's financial hub.

Obama acknowledged concerns that Pakistan was not acting quickly enough.

[Barack Obama, U.S. President]
"I will tell you that the Pakistani government understands the potential threat now that exists within their own borders. There are more Pakistanis who have been killed by terrorists inside Pakistan that probably anywhere else. But progress is not as quick we would like."

The students gave the American president high marks.

[Xavier College Student]:
"It was brilliant, it was really really good. He seems to have humility and openness that most US Presidents don't have. He was not asked planted questions. People asked questions, he pondered over them, gave honest answers. So it was very satisfactory for everybody present there."

The next stop for Obama is New Delhi where he will have dinner with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.