Washington, Aug 11 - The United States has told Pakistan it would keep up 'very strong and growing partnership' with India even as it tries to improve its partnership with Pakistan saying 'this isn't a zero-sum game.'

'The first thing I would say to Pakistanis is that this isn't a zero-sum game,' State Department spokesman Robert Wood told reporters Monday when asked how Washington was addressing Pakistanis' concern about growing US relationship with India.

'We have a very strong and growing partnership with India. We have a partnership with Pakistan that we're trying to improve on,' he said in response to questions about a Gallup Pakistan poll indicating more than 67 percent Pakistanis polled feel that US is their greatest enemy as against 18 per cent who still consider traditional rival India so.

In the 21st century 'we need to get away from these views of ... if we're a supporter or we have a good relationship with India, that impacts the relationship with Pakistan,' Wood said though people in the region do see it that way,' Wood said.

US will continue to work with both India and Pakistan and other countries to try to deal with some very difficult challenges not only from terrorism but from poverty, illiteracy, drought, disease, Wood said.