Ajmal Qasab Is A Pakistani National: Pak Media / Surviving Gunman’s Identity Established As Pakistani: Dawn

Ajmal Qasab Is A Pakistani National: Pak Media / Surviving Gunman’s Identity Established As Pakistani: Dawn

(NSI News Source Info) NDTV Correspondent, New Delhi - January 7, 2009: Pakistan's Dawn News has reported that Ajmal Amir Qasab, the lone terrorist captured during attacks on Mumbai, is a Pakistani national.So far, Pakistan government had denied that Qasab was their national.

The channel said that the investigation report filed to Pakistan Prime Minister says Qasab is a Pakistani national.

Qasab on Tuesday again asked Pakistan government for consular access and legal aid. "We have informed him that the letter has been sent to Pakistan mission and they have received it," Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Rakesh Maria said on Tuesday.

Maria further said Ajmal has not responded to various offers made by city lawyers to defend him and has said that his first choice is consular access from Pakistan. Ajmal was remanded to further police custody till January 19 for his role in the shootout at the Cama and Albless Hospital in South Mumbai.

Ajmal and his slain accomplice Ismail Khan had attacked the Cama and Albless Hospital in South Mumbai killing seven persons there.

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Surviving Gunman’s Identity Established As Pakistani By Mubashir Zaidi (NSI News Source Info) ISLAMABAD - January 7, 2009: Pakistani authorities during the course of their own investigations into the Mumbai carnage have established the identity of the only surviving terrorist Ajmal Kasab as a Pakistani national.

'He has links to Pakistan but the investigation is ongoing,' Information Minister Sherry Rehman said. Earlier, a high-ranking government official told Dawn News that because of the nature of his crime the government has still not taken any decision on whether to provide him with consular access. The top official said the investigations had started soon after the initial reports had suggested that Ajmal Kasab may possibly be a Pakistani national. However, the authorities wanted to be doubly sure of his identity as there existed no record of Kasab and his family in the National Data Base which is maintained by the NADRA. Details of the preliminary investigations submitted to the government have still not been made public. The official said Kasab is the son of Amir Kasab and Mrs Noor Illahi. But the identity of other militants killed in the Mumbai carnage is yet to be established. However, senior security officials told Dawn News preliminary investigations have established these militants were operating on their own and had absolutely no link with any section of the country’s security apparatus. A formal announcement in this regard is expected in the next few days.