Pakistan: Review set for Nawaz’s remarks on Mumbai attacks

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Army on Sunday said the country’s National Security Committee is set to discuss “recent misleading media statements” by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif regarding the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

Army spokesman Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor said the review on Monday was suggested to Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, who belongs to Sharif’s PML-N party.

Sharif on Friday had questioned the policy to allow “nonstate actors” to cross the border and “kill” people in Mumbai.

In the exclusive interview with Dawn newspaper, Sharif also criticised the apparent delay in the conclusion of the Mumbai attack trial.

EX-MINISTER: INDIA ‘BIGGEST OBSTACLE’ TO 26/11 TRIAL

Pakistan’s former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Sunday the “uncooperative attitude” and “stubbornness” of the Indian government has been the biggest obstacle to the Mumbai terror attacks trial reaching a conclusion.

Nisar, under whose watch the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) was investigating the Mumbai attacks, said the Indian government was to blame for the hold-up in the trial, Dawn newspaper reported.

“I say with full responsibility that the delay and slow pace of the Mumbai attacks-related case in Pakistan was not Pakistan’s doing but was a result of non-cooperation and stubbornness by India.” He claimed that since the attack took place, it was the Indian government which possessed “90% of the evidence and facts” of the incident.agencies