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Kasab should be sent to gallows: Pak Interior
Minister
Thursday November 10, 2011 11:34:56 AM,
IANS
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Addu Atoll
(Maldives): Ajmal Amir Kasab, convicted by an Indian
court for the 26/11 Mumbai attack, is a terrorist and should be
sent to the gallows, Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik
said here Thursday after delegation level talks between the two
countries.
He said the Pakistani judicial commission looking into the terror
attack would be coming to India soon and would positively impact
the trial of those accused in the Mumbai terror attack.
"The judicial commission has a limited mandate. They'll be in
India any time after we hear from the Indian side. They will
submit the report after the visit which is going to give a
positive impact to the judicial process (of 26/11)," Malik told
reporters at the Shangri La Hotel.
Talks between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan's
Yousuf Raza Gilani were preceded by delegation level discussions
between the two countries.
The judicial commission report, Malik said, would help plug the
legal lacuna and move forward the trial of those accused in the
Nov 26 Mumbai terror attack.
India had last week welcomed Pakistan's decision to send a
judicial commission to interview witnesses connected with the
26/11 terror probe.
"We look forward to the visit of the judicial commission," Foreign
Secretary Ranjan Mathai had told reporters Nov 5.
Pakistan's High Commissioner Shahid Malik has conveyed to Indian
Home Minister P. Chidambaram that the Pakistani government would
soon be sending the commission to take forward the process of
bringing to justice the perpetrators and conspirators of the
Mumbai carnage.
The commission is expected to record the statements of Mumbai
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate R.V. Sawant Waghule and
investigating officer Ramesh Mahale, who had recorded the
confessional statement of Ajmal Amir Kasab, convicted of the
terror attack.
Islamabad has contended that the charges against seven LeT
militants, including its 'operation commander' Zaki-ur-Rehman
Lakhvi, who are currently lodged in a Pakistani jail, were based
on Kasab's statement and hence the magistrate and the
investigating officer's statements were necessary to furnish
before the anti-terror court.
At least 166 people were killed in the 26/11 attack by 10
Pakistan-based terrorists in Mumbai.
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