Pakistan reacts cautiously to Ajmal Kasab’s execution
22 Nov 2012 12:26 AM GMT
In a cautious reaction to the hanging of Ajmal Kasab, Pakistan said on Wednesday that it condemned terrorism ‘in all its forms’ and was willing to cooperate with other countries to eliminate it.
‘We condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestation,’ Foreign Office Spokesman Moazzam Khan said, reacting to the execution of Kasab, the lone surviving Pakistani terrorist involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks carried out by the LeT.
‘We are willing to cooperate and work closely with all countries of the region to eliminate the scourge of terrorism,’ he said in a statement, adding that Islamabad had adopted the clear and consistent position of condemning terrorism in all its forms.
On India's assertion that it had informed in advance Pakistan about the decision to hang Kasab but Islamabad refused to acknowledge the letter, Khan said, ‘these reports are incorrect and baseless.’
KASAB’S FAMILY DOESN’T ASK FOR HIS BODY
Pakistan on Wednesday said it had not received any request from Ajmal Kasab’s family to bring back his body following the hanging in an Indian jail of the lone surviving terrorist involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Any request from Kasab’s family to bring back the body would be handled in accordance with Pakistani laws, Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters in Islamabad.
‘No member of Ajmal Kasab’s family or relative has requested the government (to bring back the body). When any member of the family makes a request, then we will take it up with the Indian government,’ he said.
Malik reiterated Pakistan’s commitment to the war on terrorism, saying any person involved in a terrorist act should meet his ‘logical end’. As far as his hanging is concerned, you know the resolve of Pakistan and our stated position that we are against terrorism. If there is a terrorist and if someone has done an act of terrorism, I think that terrorist should meet his logical end,’ he said.
SECURITY AGENCIES BAR SCRIBES FROM ENTERING HIS HOMETOWN
Pakistani security and intelligence agencies on Wednesday barred journalists and television cameramen from entering Ajmal Kasab’s hometown in Punjab province, hours after the lone surviving terrorist involved in the Mumbai attacks was hanged in a Pune jail.
The security personnel, who were in plain clothes and pretended to be villagers, stopped reporters from entering Faridkot village, located 150 km from the Punjab capital of Lahore, several journalists said. The personnel tried to snatch cameras from crews of some TV news channels and manhandled them when they argued they had come to Faridkot to film and interview Kasab’s neighbours.
‘The men from the security agencies in the guise of villagers were deployed on the road leading to Kasab’s neighbourhood. They asked us to go back and not to try to defame Pakistan,’ a correspondent of a leading English daily, who did not want to be named, told PTI.
He said the men tried to snatch cameras from the crews of Express News, Channel 5 and Apna TV and manhandled some media representatives when they insisted on entering the neighbourhood.
‘Why are you bent on defaming our country? Don’t play into the hands of an enemy country,’ the correspondent quoted one of the men as having said.
‘We condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestation,’ Foreign Office Spokesman Moazzam Khan said, reacting to the execution of Kasab, the lone surviving Pakistani terrorist involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks carried out by the LeT.
‘We are willing to cooperate and work closely with all countries of the region to eliminate the scourge of terrorism,’ he said in a statement, adding that Islamabad had adopted the clear and consistent position of condemning terrorism in all its forms.
On India's assertion that it had informed in advance Pakistan about the decision to hang Kasab but Islamabad refused to acknowledge the letter, Khan said, ‘these reports are incorrect and baseless.’
KASAB’S FAMILY DOESN’T ASK FOR HIS BODY
Pakistan on Wednesday said it had not received any request from Ajmal Kasab’s family to bring back his body following the hanging in an Indian jail of the lone surviving terrorist involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Any request from Kasab’s family to bring back the body would be handled in accordance with Pakistani laws, Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters in Islamabad.
‘No member of Ajmal Kasab’s family or relative has requested the government (to bring back the body). When any member of the family makes a request, then we will take it up with the Indian government,’ he said.
Malik reiterated Pakistan’s commitment to the war on terrorism, saying any person involved in a terrorist act should meet his ‘logical end’. As far as his hanging is concerned, you know the resolve of Pakistan and our stated position that we are against terrorism. If there is a terrorist and if someone has done an act of terrorism, I think that terrorist should meet his logical end,’ he said.
SECURITY AGENCIES BAR SCRIBES FROM ENTERING HIS HOMETOWN
Pakistani security and intelligence agencies on Wednesday barred journalists and television cameramen from entering Ajmal Kasab’s hometown in Punjab province, hours after the lone surviving terrorist involved in the Mumbai attacks was hanged in a Pune jail.
The security personnel, who were in plain clothes and pretended to be villagers, stopped reporters from entering Faridkot village, located 150 km from the Punjab capital of Lahore, several journalists said. The personnel tried to snatch cameras from crews of some TV news channels and manhandled them when they argued they had come to Faridkot to film and interview Kasab’s neighbours.
‘The men from the security agencies in the guise of villagers were deployed on the road leading to Kasab’s neighbourhood. They asked us to go back and not to try to defame Pakistan,’ a correspondent of a leading English daily, who did not want to be named, told PTI.
He said the men tried to snatch cameras from the crews of Express News, Channel 5 and Apna TV and manhandled some media representatives when they insisted on entering the neighbourhood.
‘Why are you bent on defaming our country? Don’t play into the hands of an enemy country,’ the correspondent quoted one of the men as having said.
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