Pakistani Ajmal Kasab Declared Not Dead!
A Pakistani school teacher,
who declared to have taught the 2008 Mumbai attack guilty Ajmal Kasab,
during 7 May 2014, told a Pakistani court that the Ajmal he knew is
alive and was not the one hanged in India. The teacher of a primary
school Faridkot, Deplapur, Okara district of Punjab province, some 120
kilometres from Lahore said that he taught Ajmal but he was not the one
hanged in India in connection with the Mumbai attacks.
Sources
told PTI that Ajmal Kasab whom he taught is alive and one hanged in
India was not enrolled in this school, and that the teacher said and
submitted the school record of the student. The teacher was a
prosecution witness in the Anti Terrorism Court, Islamabad, that is
currently hearing the case of the attack in India's financial capital
that killed 166 people in November, 2008.
Another
witness, head of the Hindi department of NAMAL University, Punjab - who
translated Kasab's statement into English - also appeared in the court,
but could not submit the translation as the defence raised objection,
saying Kasab's statement had yet to be made part of the case. Following
this, the court adjourned the proceedings till May 14. Kasab, the
25-year-old lone Pakistani gunman caught alive after the Mumbai terror
attack, was hanged to death at Pune's Yerawada central prison in a
top-secret operation on November 21, 2012.
Lashkar-e-Taiba
operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, Abdul Wajid, Mazhar Iqbal,
Hamad Amin Sadiq, Shahid Jameel Riaz, Jamil Ahmed and Anjum have been
charged with planning, financing and executing the Mumbai attacks. All
the declared criminals are jailed in Adiala prison. Out of about 60
witnesses, the anti-terrorism court has so far completed cross
examination of 32 prosecution witnesses.
(AW:SB)
