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India-Pakistan
Pakistan to try suspects, not surrender them to India, says Zardari
2008-12-04
Suspects wanted by India in the attacks on Mumbai will be tried in Pakistan if there is concrete evidence against them, President Asif Ali Zardari said on Tuesday.
How's Omar Saeed Sheikh doing, Gomez?
He told Larry King in an interview from Islamabad that if proof of wrongdoing surfaced, the men would be tried in Pakistani courts and sentenced. The state of Pakistan is in no way responsible for the Mumbai attacks, he said, which were the work of 'stateless', meaning non-state, actors. Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, he said in answer to a question, is a banned organisation in Pakistan and all around the world. "If indeed they are involved, we would not know. Again, they are people who operate outside the system.

Asked what Pakistan would do if India does produce evidence linking the terrorists with Pakistan, Zardari replied, "I would -- my government would take action, our government would take action, the democratic government of Pakistan would take action against all the actors and anybody who is involved."
I seem to recall that the Taliban tried the same thing shortly after 9/11: they said that while they wouldn't turn Binny and the al-Qaeda mooks over to us, if we just gave them all the evidence that they would try Binny in an 'Islamic court'. Bush didn't fall for that, and I hope the Indians don't fall for it now.
Lone survivor: Zardari said no "tangible proof" had come forth so far that the lone survivor from among the terrorists, was a Pakistani, as was being claimed.

Zardari said any Indian strike across the border at a suspected terror base would be counterproductive. "The threat is in the region, and just not to Bombay or to India. The threat to the state of Pakistan. There's a threat to the state of Afghanistan. It's a threat throughout the region. So that would be counterproductive." When his attention was invited to a new report predicting the possibility of a terrorist strike against a major US city in the next five years, Zardari replied that it was all the more reason to help Pakistan.

He agreed that in the past "lots of mistakes" had been made but the present government would not provide support to militant movements. "I can assure the world from my side, from my army's side, from my parliament's side and the people of Pakistan that we are not helping any such activity, he added. To a question about President-elect Barack Obama, Zardari said there is a "world romance with Obama" and "we are looking forward to working with him". He called Hillary Clinton "an excellent choice" for secretary of state. He said it would not ever be necessary for America to take action in Pakistan, as that is something Pakistan will itself do if any "actionable intelligence" was given to it.
Posted by:Fred

#1  The Indians shouldn't hold their breaths. The US is turning blue waiting for the Pakis arrest, try and punish Pakis who planned, funded and assisted the 911 atrocities.
Posted by: ed   2008-12-04 09:09  

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