LAHORE: Pakistan's inside ministry has unexpectedly got rid of the manager prosecutor from the Mumbai terror attack case for "not taking the government line", an authentic said on Sunday, in a major setback to India's efforts to carry the perpetrators to justice.
Ten Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists had sailed into Mumbai from Karachi and carried out coordinated attacks, killing 166 other folks and injuring over 300 in November 2008.
"The Interior Ministry has removed Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Special Prosecutor Chaudhry Azhar, who had been representing as chief of prosecution in the Mumbai attack case since 2009, from the high-profile case," an authentic of the FIA aware about the advance advised PTI.
Azhar has been advised that his services within the Mumbai attack case are not more required, he said.
"Azhar has only been separated from the Mumbai attack case. However, he will continue to representing the state in other cases like Benazir assassination," he said.
He evolved variations with the federal government over the "manner" the case was once being pursued, the authentic said.
"The government has its own 'special consideration' in this case and Azhar perhaps is not taking the government line. He was keen to follow the high profile case by book," the authentic tried to provide an explanation for the conceivable causes of the diversities between the manager prosecutor and the ruling PML-N executive.
When contacted, Azhar handiest confirmed that he was once asked to prevent pursuing the Mumbai attack case.
"I am no more with this case," he said.
The executive presented no clarification of the verdict, terming it a regimen subject.
"It seems to be a routine matter. I will have to talk to the relevant persons to know the reason," an authentic of inside ministry said.
The Mumbai attack case has entered into the 10th year however none of its suspects in Pakistan has been punished yet, appearing that the case had by no means been within the priority list of the country that appears to be prepared to position it beneath the carpet.
The weekly hearing on this case rarely takes position for the reason that Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) has completed the observation of all (70) prosecution witnesses.
According to the prosecution, the case may not further proceed till the Indian executive sends its 24 witnesses to Pakistan to report their statements.
Pakistan has written to India on this regard. India replied that Pakistan must put Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed on trial in response to the evidence it had supplied to it.
Numerous Pakistani witnesses each authentic and personal testified and supplied evidence in opposition to the seven accused... however still the Pakistani government were insisting on sending Indian witnesses for attaining a verdict within the nine-year-old case.
"The Mumbai attack case is being tried in an anti-terrorism courtroom in Islamabad since 2009. There has rarely been the sort of case in any ATCs in nation taking more than 9 years and still pending. The ATCs are intended for quick trial however on this case the ATC is appearing like that of a sessions' courtroom the place a case is most often not made up our minds in years.
"It appears that the state isn't in a rush to come to a decision this example for the reason that subject is expounded to its arch-rival India," a senior lawyer said.
Had the government concerned right here been serious, this example would were made up our minds years in the past, he said.
Seven LeT suspects -- Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, Abdul Wajid, Mazhar Iqbal, Hamad Amin Sadiq, Shahid Jamil Riaz, Jamil Ahmed and Younis Anjum -- are dealing with fees of abetment to murder, attempted murder, making plans and executing the Mumbai attack since 2009.
Except Lakhvi, the opposite six are stored in Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.
Ten Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists had sailed into Mumbai from Karachi and carried out coordinated attacks, killing 166 other folks and injuring over 300 in November 2008.
"The Interior Ministry has removed Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Special Prosecutor Chaudhry Azhar, who had been representing as chief of prosecution in the Mumbai attack case since 2009, from the high-profile case," an authentic of the FIA aware about the advance advised PTI.
Azhar has been advised that his services within the Mumbai attack case are not more required, he said.
"Azhar has only been separated from the Mumbai attack case. However, he will continue to representing the state in other cases like Benazir assassination," he said.
He evolved variations with the federal government over the "manner" the case was once being pursued, the authentic said.
"The government has its own 'special consideration' in this case and Azhar perhaps is not taking the government line. He was keen to follow the high profile case by book," the authentic tried to provide an explanation for the conceivable causes of the diversities between the manager prosecutor and the ruling PML-N executive.
When contacted, Azhar handiest confirmed that he was once asked to prevent pursuing the Mumbai attack case.
"I am no more with this case," he said.
The executive presented no clarification of the verdict, terming it a regimen subject.
"It seems to be a routine matter. I will have to talk to the relevant persons to know the reason," an authentic of inside ministry said.
The Mumbai attack case has entered into the 10th year however none of its suspects in Pakistan has been punished yet, appearing that the case had by no means been within the priority list of the country that appears to be prepared to position it beneath the carpet.
The weekly hearing on this case rarely takes position for the reason that Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) has completed the observation of all (70) prosecution witnesses.
According to the prosecution, the case may not further proceed till the Indian executive sends its 24 witnesses to Pakistan to report their statements.
Pakistan has written to India on this regard. India replied that Pakistan must put Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed on trial in response to the evidence it had supplied to it.
Numerous Pakistani witnesses each authentic and personal testified and supplied evidence in opposition to the seven accused... however still the Pakistani government were insisting on sending Indian witnesses for attaining a verdict within the nine-year-old case.
"The Mumbai attack case is being tried in an anti-terrorism courtroom in Islamabad since 2009. There has rarely been the sort of case in any ATCs in nation taking more than 9 years and still pending. The ATCs are intended for quick trial however on this case the ATC is appearing like that of a sessions' courtroom the place a case is most often not made up our minds in years.
"It appears that the state isn't in a rush to come to a decision this example for the reason that subject is expounded to its arch-rival India," a senior lawyer said.
Had the government concerned right here been serious, this example would were made up our minds years in the past, he said.
Seven LeT suspects -- Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, Abdul Wajid, Mazhar Iqbal, Hamad Amin Sadiq, Shahid Jamil Riaz, Jamil Ahmed and Younis Anjum -- are dealing with fees of abetment to murder, attempted murder, making plans and executing the Mumbai attack since 2009.
Except Lakhvi, the opposite six are stored in Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.
Pakistan removes chief prosecutor of Mumbai terror attack case for 'not taking govt line'
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