Mumbai Evidence not valid, Pakistan tells India

Islamabad: (Wednesday, August 01, 2012) Pakistan has told Indian authorities that recently shared evidences regarding the Mumbai attacks are not valid and are inadmissible in court as Pakistanis were not allowed to cross-examine
the Indian officials.

Replying to the Indian officials, the interior ministry of Pakistan has maintained this view point after a court rejected the evidence in July on the basis that the Pakistanis could not question Indian officials, prosecutor Chaudhry
Zulfiqar.

Following the Indian line, Pakistan had charged seven men over the Mumbai attacks in 2008, however, for further investigations, it needs to gather more evidences from Indian officials.

Commenting on the why Pakistan believes that the evidences are not enough, Zulfiqar, who headed the judicial commission visiting India back in March, said, “Defence lawyers were not given an opportunity to cross examine Indian
officials.”

Pakistan had demanded Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving gunman from the attacks and sentenced to death in India, to testify, but the Indian authorities did not allow him to be interrogated by the Pakistani officials.

The Pakistani judicial commission had recorded statements of Indian investigators, doctors who performed autopsies and the magistrate who took Kasab’s confession.

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