Kasab belongs to Pakistan, says Nawaz Sharif, also slams Zardari

by Sanjay Jha | December 19, 2008 at 02:24 am
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Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nwaz Sharif has rebuffed his own government's assertion that arested baby faced terrorist in Mumbai terror attack doesn't belong to Pakistan. Sharif has said that arrested terroists belong to Pakistan and his village has been cordoned off and his parents have been cut off to meet anyone. He also called Pakistan a failed state. 

"I have checked myself. His (Ajmal Amir Iman alias Ajmal Kasab) house and village has been cordoned off by the security agencies. His parents are not allowed to meet anybody. I don't understand why it has been done," Sharif, who hails from Punjab, said in an interview to Geo News channel.

"The people and media should be allowed to meet Iman's parents so that the truth could come out in the open," he said, adding that "We need some kind of introspection."

Zardari, who earlier acknowledged that the perpetrators of the Mumbai carnage could be 'non-state' actors from Pakistan, has now said there is still no "real evidence" that the terrorists who attacked Mumbai came from Pakistan.

"Have you seen any evidence to that effect? I have definitely not seen any real evidence to that effect," Zardari told BBC in an interview this week.

Pakistani security agencies and local officials in Faridkot have launched a cover-up since India made it public that Kasab belonged to the village in Punjab province and his father acknowledged to a Pakistani newspaper, that the gunman captured in India was his son.

The former Pakistani premier slammed Zardari administration and also blamed his predecessor Pervez Mushrraf for mis governance.


[q url=""]PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif slams the Pakistani government, saying the functioning of the ruling party is making the country look like a 'failed state'.

Pakistan presents the picture of a failed and ungovernable state due to the absence of the government's writ and the country urgently needs a new roadmap to pull it out of the problems it is currently facing, Sharif said in an interview with the Geo TV on Thursday.
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