Islamabad, May 13 (TNS): Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Sunday said the uncooperative attitude and stubbornness of the Indian government has been the biggest obstacle in the Mumbai terror attacks trial reaching a conclusion.
Nisar’s comments came in the wake of a statement by ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who questioned Pakistan’s policy to allow the “non-state actors” to cross the border and “kill” people in Mumbai attacks.
Reacting to Sharif’s remarks, Nisar, under whose watch the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) was investigating the Mumbai attacks, said the Indian government was to blame for the hold-up in the Mumbai attacks trial.
“I say with full responsibility that the delay and slow pace of the Mumbai attacks-related case in Pakistan was not Pakistan’s doing but was a result of non-cooperation and stubbornness by India,” said the disgruntled PML-N member.
He said since the attack took place in the Indian financial capital, it was the Indian government which possessed “90 per cent of the evidence and facts” of the incident.
“Despite repeated efforts, India refused to share those facts and evidence with FIA and the investigative committee formed by Pakistani courts,” he claimed.
He said, “There was no bigger evidence of the Indian government’s lack of interest in taking the case to its end than its refusal to allow FIA to question the only living proof of the attacks: Ajmal Kasab.”
“Kasab was hanged in such haste so that the Mumbai attacks could be used as a tool for Pakistan bashing across the world on political basis,” he said.
He claimed that although Pakistan had cooperated with the Indian government for information-sharing regarding every terrorist incident, India had not reciprocated for incidents taking place inside Pakistan.
Courtesy: Press Trust of India
