Islamabad: A senior Pakistani bureaucrat has said the letter written by Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving gunman of the Mumbai terror attacks, was not real.
The letter’s contents did not "match those of a real Pakistani. They (Indians) have simply tried to make up a story and have even failed in that too," said Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah. The Indian government has Kasab's letter pleading for legal help to Pakistani embassy officials in Delhi.
Shah said this while speaking to reporters at the headquarters of the National Database and Registration Authority, Pakistan's national database, on Tuesday.
Shah also denied that India had shared evidence on the Mumbai attacks with Pakistan. "Why did the Indians not share the identity of the others accused in the attacks? They are talking just about Kasab, who was not even arrested from the crime scene," he said.
A British newspaper and a Pakistani daily have established that Kasab belongs to Faridkot village in Pakistan’s Punjab province. Kasab's father told Dawn newspaper that the gunman whose picture was beamed round the world by the media was his son.
Residents of Faridkot village too have told the Pakistani media that Kasab was “their boy” and had told his mother during his last visit home that he was going away for jehad.
Shah repeated Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik’s statement that no record of a person called Kasab had been found in the national database. PTI reports the database covers only 60 million of Pakistan's total population of over 160 million.
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