Pakistan files case against Kasab: reports

New Delhi: The Pakistan government has filed a case against Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, the only terrorist captured alive for the Mumbai terrorist attacks in November 2008, media reports in the country say.

The media reports say charges have been filed against Kasab and 13 other people after the country’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) conducted a probe into the Mumbai attacks.

PTI, while quoting Geo News TV channel, said the case against Kasab and others was filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act at the Dockyard Police Station in Karachi.

Geo News reported three of the accused were arrested in Karachi and nine more persons had been identified but were yet to be taken into custody.

Islamabad ordered the FIA probe after India’s allegation that the Mumbai attacks were plotted in Pakistan.

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee refused to comment on the media reports and said in New Delhi he would wait for a statement from the Pakistani government.

Kasab has reportedly told Indian authorities that he and his nine other attackers were Pakistani, he was trained in Pakistan, and his handlers are still there

Indian authorities will frame charges against Kasab, who is currently in an undisclosed location, by the month end.

A British newspaper and Pakistani media have shown evidence that Kasab belonged to Faridkot village in Okara district of Punjab province but Islamabad has rejected these reports.

The Mumbai attacks began November 26 and lasted for nearly three days. The 10 gunmen attacked 10 sites across India's financial capital, including two five-star hotels, the main train station, popular restaurants and a Jewish centre.

Pakistan detained or placed under surveillance some 124 members of Lashkar-e-Toiba and its front organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawah after India blamed the Lashkar for the Mumbai attacks.

Lashkar and Jamaat founder Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, Lashkar operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and communications expert Zarar Shah are among those people who were detained earlier in connection with the attacks.