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India-Pakistan
Pakistan hands six dossiers to India over Mumbai attacks
2010-04-26
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sunday handed over to India six dossiers on its own investigation into the Mumbai attacks, with a request that India hand over Ajmal Kasab and an Indian national, Fahim Ansari so that their testimonies could be recorded in Pakistan. Top Foreign Office officials handed over the dossiers to the Indian deputy high commissioner, APP reported.
It seems to me India handed over the dossier of their interrogation of Mr. Kasab ages ago, along with what their investigation had revealed, and asked that certain individuals be turned over to them for trial. This sounds like a long-delayed tit for tat.
The government asked India to hand over the lone surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai attacks so that it could complete its own trial of seven suspects linked to the assault, officials said.
Um, no ...
"We have sought India's help that he (Ajmal Kasab) should be handed over to us so that the trial here can go forward," Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit told AFP.
What's wrong with a teleconference? That would release less CO2 into the atmosphere.
Islamabad is holding seven suspects linked to the November 26 to 29 attack on India's financial capital, including alleged mastermind of the operation, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, and Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LT) operative Zarar Shah. India and Washington have both blamed the Mumbai attack on the LT.

An anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi indicted the seven men on the eve of the first anniversary of the attack. Since the indictment, officials have implied that the seven suspects' trial cannot proceed unless Kasab, who was convicted in Mumbai last month after a year-long trial, is handed over as a witness.
If that ever happened, which it won't, the Pak courts would find something in his testimony to cause all defendants to be found innocent as the driven snow, at which time they'd be released, given some rehab, and be sent to Kashmir, to be shot in the back by their own people when they infiltrate the border, just to make sure they never blab.
When asked how India could extradite Kasab and Ansari to Pakistan, Basit replied, "It is not extradition per se. It is a legal requirement since the court has asked that Kasab be produced before it."

Interior Minister Rehman Malik has also said that Kasab is required to appear in Rawalpindi. "Kasab's statement is of paramount importance in the Mumbai attack case, which is an important document and our courts need it," APP quoted him as telling reporters late on Saturday.

Malik said India would also be requested to send to Rawalpindi the officials who recorded Kasab's statement in Mumbai.
Need to 'deal' with the witnesses too ...
Posted by:Steve White

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