'Incriminating' evidence against Lakhvi, says Pak counsel

M Zulqernain
Lahore, Jan 31 (PTI) Pakistani authorities have 161
witnesses and "incriminating" evidence to nail LeT operations
commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other suspects in the
Mumbai terror attack case, a senior government law official
has said.

"We have 161 witnesses and incriminating material to
prove the involvement of Lakhvi and the other accused in the
2008 Mumbai attacks," Special Public Prosecutor Malik Rab
Nawaz Noon told reporters.
The interior ministry has hired the services of Noon to
head the prosecution team in the Rawalpindi-based anti-
terrorism court that is conducting the trial of Lakhvi and the
other suspects.
Noon also alleged that the lawyers of the accused were
causing delays in the court proceedings.
Rejecting the defence counsel's objections to the
validity of the confessional statement made to Indian
authorities by Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone attacker arrested in
Mumbai, Noon said it was received through proper government-
to-government channels.
"We have got it translated by the head of the Hindi
department of the National University of Modern Languages in
Islamabad," he said.
Lakhvi's counsel has filed a petition in the Rawalpindi
bench of the Lahore High Court challenging the anti-terrorism
court's decision to reject his plea for acquittal. (MORE) PTI
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