Pak yet to convey when its 26/11 commission will visit India

New Delhi, Apr 15 (PTI) Pakistan has not yet conveyed to
India when its judicial commission will visit here to take the
statement of the magistrate who had recorded the confessional
statement of Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist of
26/11 attack, to pursue the case there.
During the Home Secretary-level talks held in New Delhi
in March, India agreed to a Pakistani proposal to host a
judicial commission of that country to take statements of
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate R V Sawant Waghule,
Investigating Officer Ramesh Mahale and the doctor who carried
out the post-mortem of the terrorists.
Islamabad has been maintaining that it is necessary to
send the commission to India as part of the judicial process
of 26/11 case in Pakistan and promised at the Home Secretary-
level talks that they would do so within six weeks.
"The six-week time will come to an end on May 15.
However, Pakistan is yet to convey to us when they are
sending the commission to India," an official said.
The government has already conveyed to the Bombay High
Court that Sawant and Waghule should be available for
questioning by the Pakistani commission.
The Pakistani commission wants to interview the Indian
officials in connection with the trial of seven Pakistani
suspects, currently in a jail in that country, in 26/11 Mumbai
attacks case.
Pakistan's contention is that the charges against the
seven Lashkar-e-Taiba activists, including its operation
commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, are based on Kasab's
statement in Mumbai and hence the magistrate and the IO's
statements were necessary to submit before the anti-terror
court there.
India has already provided to Pakistan copies of Kasab's
statement that was recorded in languages Hindi and regional
language Marathi in the presence of Waghule. An English
version is also available with Pakistan.