No legal requirement for India to access 26/11 accused: Pak

Islamabad: Days after India proposed sending a panel to Islamabad to quiz LeT’s Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and other key accused in the Mumbai attacks, Pakistan today said there is no legal requirement for an Indian commission to be granted access to the terror suspects in this country.
Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said Pakistan’s proposal to send a commission to India to interview lone surviving attacker Ajmal Kasab and officials who probed the attack was a legal requirement to take forward the prosecution of Pakistani suspects.
However, he said there was no legal requirement for India’s request to send a commission to question terror suspects linked to the Mumbai incident.
“Whereas the visit of our judicial commission is a legal requirement in order to pursue the Mumbai attacks trial in Pakistan…