ISLAMABAD, Apr 25 (AFP): Pakistan has asked India to hand over the lone surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai attacks so that it can complete its own trial of seven suspects linked to the assault, officials said Sunday.
"We have sought India's help that he (Pakistani national Mohammed Ajmal Kasab) should be handed over to us so that the trial here can go forward," foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Basit told AFP.
Basit said that Pakistan on Sunday handed over to India six dossiers on its own investigation into Mumbai attacks, with a request that India in turn hand over Kasab and an Indian national, Fahim Ansari, who helped the attackers.
Pakistan is holding seven suspects linked to the November 26-29 attack on India's financial capital, including alleged mastermind of the operation, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative Zarar Shah.
India and Washington have both blamed the Mumbai attack on the LeT.
An anti-terrorism court in the garrison town of Rawalpindi indicted the seven men on the eve of the first anniversary of the attack, in which at least 166 people were killed and which ended a fragile peace process with Pakistan.
Pakistan asks India to hand over Mumbai attacker
FE Team | Published: April 26, 2010 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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