Pakistani authorities were on Saturday caught on the wrong foot as an anti-terror court hearing the 26/11 case was told that Interpol was yet to be approached for a Red Corner notice for Ajmal Kasab, weeks after they claimed the matter had been taken up with the Paris-based agency.
The Rawalpindi-based anti-terrorism court conducting the trial of LeT’s operations chief Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other suspects in the Mumbai attacks adjourned the case till June 5.
Judge Malik Mohammed Akram Awan adjourned the trial after hearing arguments by the prosecution and defence on whether Kasab and Fahim Ansari could be made part of the trial. Kasab was given death penalty by a Mumbai court earlier this month while Ansari, who was also an accused, was acquitted for want of evidence. Defence lawyers argued in the Rawalpindi court that persons like Ajmal Kasab and Fahim Ansari, who had been convicted or acquitted, could not be tried again for the same offence.
They said that section 403 of the Indian and Pakistani Penal Codes did not permit the fresh trial of persons who have been convicted or acquitted.
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Pak govt has no funds for flood victims
Age correspondent
Islamabad
Pakistan said on Saturday that government cannot immediately announce funds for the affectees of Hunza flood.
“All facilities have been provided at the relief camps but the government cannot announce relief amounts immediately,” federal minister for Gilgit-Baltistan affairs Manzoor Wattoo said. He however, added the government will leave no stone upturned to meet the needs of the affected persons of Ata Abad Lake.
“The situation at Hunza Lake has been under control. We are looking at what can be done,” he said.