Amidst Pakistan's attempt to dispute the nationality of the lone surviving gunman arrested for the Mumbai terror attacks, a Pakistani lawyer has claimed Ajmal Amir Iman was a Pakistani citizen arrested two years ago in Kathmandu by "Indian agencies" with the help of Nepal.
C M Farooque, a lawyer,claimed that nearly 200 Pakistanis were held along with Kasab in a secret detention place so that they could be used to serve some "ulterior designs" later.
According to the lawyer, he filed a case in Nepal's Supreme Court asking for their release. The case, according to Farooque, is still being heard with a hearing scheduled later this month when he would be visiting Kathmandu to argue on behalf of his clients.
"The people arrested in Nepal had gone there on legal visas for business but Indian agencies are in the habit of capturing Pakistanis from Nepal and afterwards implicating them in the Mumbai-like incidents to malign Pakistan," the lawyer alleged.
However, Supreme Court documents showed that in February 2007, the Pakistani lawyer had asked Nepal's apex court to free two Pakistanis, Asif Ali and Walid Sajjad, who had been reportedly arrested from a hotel in Kathmandu in 2005.
Indian officials dismissed the lawyer's allegations as "sheer propaganda."
Farooque told Geo News channel that he had filed an application in Nepal's Supreme Court for seeking Iman's release and claimed the court had sought a reply from Nepali authorities and the Indian High Commission in Kathmandu.
But the lawyer repeatedly fumbled when asked questions by Geo News about crucial aspects of the case. He could not provide a specific answer as to when he had filed the application in Nepal's courts.
He said he had filed it "sometime in early 2008" and then claimed he had filed it in February this year.
Farooque was also vague about the time when Iman was arrested, saying he was apprehended "before 2006".
Nepal's Home Ministry on Monday rejected the claim by the Pakistani lawyer that Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the only terrorist to have been captured alive after the Mumbai attack last month, was arrested in Kathmandu in 2005 and handed over to the Indian authorities.
"We have no such information," home ministry spokesman Nabin Kumar Ghimire said.
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Nobody should be surprised.pakistanis can come up with even more colourful stories.
But the only tragedy for them is that there is absolute evidence against them and outside of pakistan there is going to be no one who believes them.They are actually making themselves a laughing stock,they are making fools of themselves.They continue to deny supporting terrorism in India and they insist that there are no terrorists in pakistan who target India,even though their own media, admitted with proof that the terrorist captured is a pakistani.It's a real shame to still be in denial mode.Any way a simple question to pakistan is,what is mr.mazood azar doing in pakistan?He was a terrorist released by India in exchange of getting passengers released from the Indian Arilines flight,which was hijacked by the taliban terrorists.Why is he allowed a comfortable life in pakistan?
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