| Submit your comments on this article | |
| India-Pakistan | |
| Local court to try Mumbai suspects | |
| 2009-02-15 | |
| Pakistani authorities say the suspects of the Mumbai terror attacks will be formally charged before a local anti-terror court. "The security has been put on high alert in the federal capital and the garrison city of Rawalpindi where the suspects will be presented to the court," a senior police official told Press TV on Saturday. The official, who requested anonymity, said that the Federal Investigation Agency had requested the government to provide two bulletproof vehicles for the transport of the suspects to the trial, which would be held in the Central Jail Adiala in Rawalpindi. He, however, did not give any information regarding the trials' date. Meanwhile, Pakistan's Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik said Saturday that the country might ask India to hand over Ajmal Amir Qasab -- the lone terrorist captured during the Mumbai attacks. He said the handover would strengthen efforts to prosecute the other suspects detained over links to the strikes.
On Thursday, Pakistan acknowledged for the first time that part of the conspiracy behind the Mumbai attacks was hatched within the country. Qasab was captured alive and nine other terrorists were killed by the India's NSG (National Security Guard) commandos. The terror attacks claimed over 170 lives, including terrorists. | |
| Posted by:Fred |