26/11 case: Court told India won't send Kasab to Pak

Rezaul H Laskar
Islamabad, Juy 3 (PTI) Pakistan government Saturday
informed an anti-terror court hearing the Mumbai attack case
involving LeT's Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other suspects
that the latest Indian dossier on the 26/11 strikes said Ajmal
Kasab could not be sent to Pakistan to testify against the
accused.
A government lawyer appeared before Judge Malik Muhammad
Akram Awan, who is conducting the trial in the Adiala Jail in
Rawalpindi for security reasons, and said India's latest
dossier had said that it would not be possible to send Kasab
to Pakistan to join the court's proceedings.
The government lawyer said the anti-terrorism court could
now make a request for the Indian magistrates and a police
officer who had recorded Kasab's statement to come to Pakistan
to testify.
The government too is looking into this matter and will
make a request in this regard, the lawyer said.
Saturday's proceedings were brief as lawyers across
Punjab province and other parts of Pakistan are on strike to
protest against Thursday's suicide attack on the Data Darbar
shrine in Lahore that killed 45 people.
After hearing the government lawyer, Judge Awan adjourned
the case and scheduled the next hearing for July 10.
Meanwhile, a notification issued Saturday stated that
Deputy Attorney General Muhammad Akhtar Awan would be the new
special public prosecutor for the trial of the seven suspects.
The former special public prosecutor, Malik Rab Nawaz
Noon, recently died of a heart attack.
Pakistan had recently sought access to Kasab, a Pakistani
national who has been convicted and sentenced to death by an
Indian court for his role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, to
facilitate the trial of the seven accused.
It had also said that India should send the magistrates
and the police officer who recorded Kasab's confession to
testify in the Pakistani court if access could not be granted
to Kasab. (More) PTI RHL
MRD


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