The Pakistan government has decided to hand over Rashid Rauf, the main suspect in the London terror plot, to the United Kingdom, interior ministry sources here say. The sources said although there was no extradition treaty between Pakistan and the UK, as a signatory of a United Nations convention and under different provision in the law of the country, the government could hand over the accused to Britain.
They said there were precedents that people wanted in different cases had been handed over to the UK. "We have handed over some people to the British government in the recent past." The UK has submitted a request to the Foreign Office seeking custody of Rauf. The accused is reported to possess dual nationality of Pakistan and the UK."Rauf is a British national, therefore he can be repatriated to the UK on special grounds," the sources said. |