India responsible for slow pace of 26/11 trial: Pak ex-minister

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

Nisar’s comments came in the wake of a statement by ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif who questioned Pakistan’s policy to allow the “non-state actors” to cross the border and “kill” people in 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.

Sharif said: “Militant organisations are active in Pakistan. Call them nonstate actors, should we allow them to cross the border and kill over 150 people in Mumbai? Explain it to me. Why can’t we complete the trial.”

Reacting to Sharif ’s remarks, 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 Mumbai

attacks trial, the Dawn 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,” said the disgruntled PML-N member.

He said since the attack took place in the Indian financial capital, it was the Indian government which possessed “90 per cent of the evidence and facts” of the incident.