Headley should face action under US laws: Pak minister

Islamabad, Dec 7 (PTI) Pakistan Interior Minister
Rehman Malik Monday said David Coleman Headley, a terror
suspect of Pakistani origin detained in the US, should face
action under American laws.

Though Headley was of Pakistani origin, he had left
the country in his youth, Malik told reporters in the southern
port city of Karachi.
"If he has committed any crime, he should be punished
under US laws," he said.
Malik was responding to a question on whether American
authorities had sought Pakistan’s help in probing Headley’s
links in the country.
The Minister said Pakistan will provide help to US
authorities if any formal request is received for assistance
in the matter.
In response to another question, Malik said evidence
of India’s alleged involvement in fomenting unrest in Pakistan
has been handed over to the foreign ministry.
Pakistan will present this evidence when the composite
dialogue between the two countries resumes, he said.
He also said arms and militants were being sent into
Pakistan from Afghanistan.
Pakistan has take
Replying to yet another question, Malik said al-Qaeda
chief Osama bin Laden was not in Pakistan.
Pakistani authorities will take action if Western
countries that have been claiming bin Laden is in the country
shared information on his whereabouts, he said.
American authorities recently arrested Headley, a US
citizen living in Chicago and also known as Daood Gilani, and
one of his accomplices in the city on charges of planning
terrorist attacks in Denmark and India.
He has also been accused of having close links with
the banned Lashker-e-Taiba, which the Pakistan government has
acknowledged was behind the Mumbai attacks. PTI RHL