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Pak declines Indian request on 26/11 inquiry commission:Report
Rezaul H Laskar
Islamabad, Mar 13 (PTI) Pakistani authorities have
declined an Indian request to send an inquiry commission to
interrogate LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other
suspects charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks, a
media report said Sunday.
"There is no law under which we could allow the Indian
investigators to grill the seven accused, who are already in
judicial custody," a senior unnamed Interior Ministry official
was quoted as saying by the Dawn newspaper.
India had sent an official letter expressing its
willingness to allow a Pakistani commission to visit India to
interview key officials linked with the probe into the 2008
Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people. In the same letter, it
had asked Pakistan to allow its team to visit Islamabad to
interrogate the seven accused.
Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram told the media on
March 2 that India had sent Pakistan "a request asking them if
they would agree to a team from India to question the people
who are suspects."
Wajid Zia, chief of the Federal Investigation Agency's
joint investigating team that probed the Mumbai incident, sent
a reply to the Interior Ministry's National Crisis Management
Cell, which has forwarded it to the Foreign Ministry for
delivery to Indian authorities.
Zia's letter states that Pakistan's request for sending a
commission to India to interrogate persons, including the
magistrate who recorded the lone surviving terrorist Ajmal
Kasab's statement, is based on sections 503, 505 and 507 of
the Code Criminal Procedure, sources told Dawn.
The letter also states that the seven Pakistani accused –
Lakhvi, Hammad Amin Sadiq, Mazhar Iqbal alias Abu Al-Qama,
Abdul Wajid alias Zarar Shah, Mohammad Younas Anjum, Shahid
Jameel Riaz and Jamil Ahmed -- have been remanded into
judicial custody.
The letter also questioned the legal basis of the Indian
request to interrogate these suspects, the sources said.
The seven Pakistani suspects are currently being held in
Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.
Islamabad, Mar 13 (PTI) Pakistani authorities have
declined an Indian request to send an inquiry commission to
interrogate LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other
suspects charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks, a
media report said Sunday.
"There is no law under which we could allow the Indian
investigators to grill the seven accused, who are already in
judicial custody," a senior unnamed Interior Ministry official
was quoted as saying by the Dawn newspaper.
India had sent an official letter expressing its
willingness to allow a Pakistani commission to visit India to
interview key officials linked with the probe into the 2008
Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people. In the same letter, it
had asked Pakistan to allow its team to visit Islamabad to
interrogate the seven accused.
Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram told the media on
March 2 that India had sent Pakistan "a request asking them if
they would agree to a team from India to question the people
who are suspects."
Wajid Zia, chief of the Federal Investigation Agency's
joint investigating team that probed the Mumbai incident, sent
a reply to the Interior Ministry's National Crisis Management
Cell, which has forwarded it to the Foreign Ministry for
delivery to Indian authorities.
Zia's letter states that Pakistan's request for sending a
commission to India to interrogate persons, including the
magistrate who recorded the lone surviving terrorist Ajmal
Kasab's statement, is based on sections 503, 505 and 507 of
the Code Criminal Procedure, sources told Dawn.
The letter also states that the seven Pakistani accused –
Lakhvi, Hammad Amin Sadiq, Mazhar Iqbal alias Abu Al-Qama,
Abdul Wajid alias Zarar Shah, Mohammad Younas Anjum, Shahid
Jameel Riaz and Jamil Ahmed -- have been remanded into
judicial custody.
The letter also questioned the legal basis of the Indian
request to interrogate these suspects, the sources said.
The seven Pakistani suspects are currently being held in
Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.
