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Pak not to hand over Mumbai suspects to India: Qureshi
Rezaul H Laskar
Islamabad, Dec 9 (PTI) Pakistan Tuesday said any of its citizens found to be linked to the Mumbai terror attacks will not be handed over to India, but tried under the country's own laws.
"The arrest being made are for our own investigations.
Even if allegations are proved against any suspect he will not
be handed over to India," Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood
Qureshi said Tuesday.
Qureshi's remarks come as a Pakistan army confirmed that
some key LeT terrorists had been rounded up during the
crackdown on the banned organisation's camps on the outskirts
of the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir capital of Muzaffarabad.
The military spokesman had said the operations against
banned groups would continue and more arrests are expected.
Qureshi told reporters after offering Eid prayers in his
hometown of Multan that though Pakistan will fully cooperate
with India in investigating the Mumbai attacks, any Pakistani
individual found to be linked or involved in the incident will
be tried only in a Pakistani court.
If necessary, he said, he would visit India to clarify
Islamabad's position to New Delhi.
His comments echoed a decision made by the cabinet Monday
to take action against any persons or groups involved in the
Mumbai attacks only "within the ambit of Pakistani law".
The meeting of the Defence Committee of the Cabinet,
chaired by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, also pledged to
act on all information provided by India regarding the
attacks. It also renewed Pakistan's offer to cooperate in
probing the incident by setting up a joint investigative
commission.
India and the US have said Pakistan-based elements were
responsible for planning and carrying out the attacks.
Lashker-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhwi,
reportedly detained during a crackdown launched by Pakistani
troops on Sunday, is suspected to be the mastermind of the Nov
26 Mumbai attacks.
Pakistan has also rejected India's demand to hand over
Jaish-e-Mohammed founder Maulana Masood Azhar and two India
underworld dons and the 1993 Bombay blasts accused Dawood
Ibrahim and Tiger Memon.
Masood, who was released in Kandahar in exchange for the
hijacked Indian airlines passengers in 1999, has reportedly
been placed under restrictions in his hometown of Bahawalpur.
India had demanded that the three be handed over in the
wake of the Mumbai attacks that killed over 180 people. PTI
RHL
Islamabad, Dec 9 (PTI) Pakistan Tuesday said any of its citizens found to be linked to the Mumbai terror attacks will not be handed over to India, but tried under the country's own laws.
"The arrest being made are for our own investigations.
Even if allegations are proved against any suspect he will not
be handed over to India," Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood
Qureshi said Tuesday.
Qureshi's remarks come as a Pakistan army confirmed that
some key LeT terrorists had been rounded up during the
crackdown on the banned organisation's camps on the outskirts
of the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir capital of Muzaffarabad.
The military spokesman had said the operations against
banned groups would continue and more arrests are expected.
Qureshi told reporters after offering Eid prayers in his
hometown of Multan that though Pakistan will fully cooperate
with India in investigating the Mumbai attacks, any Pakistani
individual found to be linked or involved in the incident will
be tried only in a Pakistani court.
If necessary, he said, he would visit India to clarify
Islamabad's position to New Delhi.
His comments echoed a decision made by the cabinet Monday
to take action against any persons or groups involved in the
Mumbai attacks only "within the ambit of Pakistani law".
The meeting of the Defence Committee of the Cabinet,
chaired by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, also pledged to
act on all information provided by India regarding the
attacks. It also renewed Pakistan's offer to cooperate in
probing the incident by setting up a joint investigative
commission.
India and the US have said Pakistan-based elements were
responsible for planning and carrying out the attacks.
Lashker-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhwi,
reportedly detained during a crackdown launched by Pakistani
troops on Sunday, is suspected to be the mastermind of the Nov
26 Mumbai attacks.
Pakistan has also rejected India's demand to hand over
Jaish-e-Mohammed founder Maulana Masood Azhar and two India
underworld dons and the 1993 Bombay blasts accused Dawood
Ibrahim and Tiger Memon.
Masood, who was released in Kandahar in exchange for the
hijacked Indian airlines passengers in 1999, has reportedly
been placed under restrictions in his hometown of Bahawalpur.
India had demanded that the three be handed over in the
wake of the Mumbai attacks that killed over 180 people. PTI
RHL
