Mumbai suspects will be tried under Pak Anti-terror law: Malik

Islamabad, Jan 16 (PTI) Any Pakistani national found to
be involved in the Mumbai terrorist attacks will be dealt
"with an iron hand" and tried under the Anti-Terrorism Act in
the country's special anti-terror courts, interior ministry
chief Rehman Malik has said.

A three-member commission, headed by Additional Director
General Javed Iqbal of the Federal Investigation Agency, had
been formed to probe the Mumbai attacks, Malik said.

The team has the power to take into custody any person
suspected of having "direct or indirect links" to the Mumbai
incident or of having helped the Mumbai attackers "through the
internet or other means".

The team had also been authorised to "share information
directly with Indian investigation organisations so that this
process could be completed at the earliest", Geo News said.

The Pakistan government has already ruled out the
possibility of handing over any terror suspects linked to the
Mumbai suspects to India.

A total of 124 members of the outlawed Lashker-e-Taiba
and its front organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawah have been detained
by Pakistan in the wake of the terrorist strike in India's
financial hub that killed over 180 people.

Malik told Geo New channel the government had decided
that any Pakistani national found to be involved in the Mumbai
attacks would be dealt with "with an iron hand" and tried
under the "Anti-Terrorism Act in special anti-terror courts".

"If the commission feels the need for visiting carnage
sites in Mumbai, then Indian officials would be contacted...
and the commission would be sent to India," the report said.

Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah said the commission
would soon present its report to the interior ministry and it
would be forwarded to the Prime Minister. PTI RHL
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