Pak judicial commission meets Mumbai terror attack prosecutor

New Delhi/Mumbai, Mar 16 (PTI) A Pakistani judicial commission Thursday held a close-door meeting with special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack in which LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other suspects face charges in a Pakistani court. Highly placed sources said Nikam, who held a three-hour long meeting with the eight-member Pakistani judicial Commission in Delhi, later met India's Home Minister P Chidambram, Home Secretary R K Singh and apprised them about his discussions. The Pakistani team flew to Mumbai later in the day by an Air India flight amid tight security and is to record the statements of four witnesses from Friday. When contacted, Nikam refused to divulge details of the meeting but said "the evidence of these witnesses would help Pakistan nail the perpetrators of the 26/11 terror attack". The Pakistani Commission will record the statements of the metropolitan magistrate who took the confessional statement of the lone surviving terrorist Mohd Ajmal Amir Kasab, and also of Chief Investigating Officer in the case. The commission headed by special prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali who came from Lahore to Delhi Wednesday will also record the evidence of two doctors involved in carrying out the autopsy of the nine killed terrorists in the 2008 attack in which 166 people were killed. The commission can only record the statements of the Indian officials and it cannot conduct any cross-examination, the sources said. The anti-terrorism court in Pakistan is conducting the trial of seven suspects, including Lakhvi, who have been charged with planning, financing and executing the terror attacks in Mumbai. The trial of the seven Pakistani suspects has been stalled due to legal hurdles. Pakistani prosecutors have said the commission's visit to India is necessary to take forward the trial. The panel will collect evidence on behalf of the Pakistani court trying Lakhvi and other suspects in the case. On November 26, 2008, Kasab, and nine other LeT terrorists had landed in Mumbai by sea and massacred 166 people in a bloody mayhem at city's landmarks including Taj Mahal Hotel, CST Railway Terminus and Oberoi Hotel. PTI