Islamabad: Pakistan on Sunday said it was moving "systematically" in probing the Mumbai terror attacks to bring the perpetrators to justice and there should not be
an "iota of doubt" on its intentions.
Foreign Office spokesperson Abdul Basit lauded
Pakistan`s intelligence agencies for doing a "commendable job"
in collecting evidence and bringing the case to the
prosecution stage.
"I think our intelligence agencies have done a
commendable job and that they through their own investigation
collected more evidence than what was provided by India... and
now we are moving actual prosecution," Basit told Times Now.
"... And the chargesheet has already been filed and I
understand that the first hearing would be sometime next week.
So we are moving systematically," he said when asked to
respond to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton`s comment
that justice has not been done in the 26/11 case.
He said Pakistan was committed to bring to justice those
responsible and "whatever can be done will be done".
"Pakistan is committed to bring the perpetrators of the
Mumbai terror attack to justice and there should not be an
iota of doubt on this count," he said.
A second and supplementary chargesheet against five LeT
operatives accused of involvement in the Mumbai attacks,
including its operations chief Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, was filed
before an anti-terror court yesterday by Pakistan`s Federal
Investigation Agency (FIA) in a court.
In several areas, buses have refused to take displaced
Pakistanis back to their villages and towns. The people were
asked to get off the buses and walk back to their homes even
as the Pakistan military used artillery to target nearby
militant hideouts, a journalist who visited Buner recently
said.
Over two million people were displaced by fighting
after Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani called in the
army in May to eliminate the Taliban in Buner, Dir and Swat
districts.
Thousands of people began returning to their homes
from July 13 after Gilani announced that the objectives of the
military operation had been achieved.
Bureau Report
