No evidence confirms Kasab went from Pakistan to Mumbai:Bashir

Karachi, Feb 27 (PTI) Pakistan was back in denial mode
Friday with its Navy Chief Admiral Noman Bashir claiming there
was no proof that Ajmal Kasab took the sea route from this
country to carry out the Mumbai terror attacks.

"We have seen no evidence that confirms he went from
Pakistan to Mumbai," Bashir told reporters here.

The Navy Chief's contention contradicts Interior
Ministry chief Rehman Malik's admission two weeks back that
the Mumbai attacks were "partly" plotted on Pakistan soil and
launched from its shores for which it has arrested six
persons.

"The evidence that I have doesn't show" that the
terrorists went from this country. "This is India's claim from
day one. Even before the Mumbai incidents had ended, India was
saying that the terrorists have used sea route," he said.

The Navy chief wondered how the terrorists could have
escaped the tight vigil of the Pakistan navy guarding its
coastline.

"If they have evaded us and the Indian navy which is
ten times bigger than our navy and cheated them along with the
Coastguard, which is 12 times bigger than our Coastguards,
what shall I say," he said.

Bashir said they were lot of questions that still
needed to be answered about the Mumbai terror attacks.

"I don't want to make anymore comments on this until I
have seen some evidence and if Kasab and others reached Mumbai
via our waters, the question is what was the Indian Naval and
Maritime forces doing?

If this was true, it showed the failure of the Indian
Navy and the Coastguards, he said.

He said Pakistan was committed to stopping terrorism
emanating fro the sea route. "Whatever lapses were there, we
have tried to mend them. But to say that it has been 100 per
cent perfect, is not possible., neither for Pakistan nor for
India. PTI VMN
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