Pakistan Supreme Court on Wednesday sought the confessional statement of Ajmal Kasab, convicted in India for his role in the Mumbai attacks, while hearing Lashkar-e-Tayiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi's petition seeking his acquittal in a case related to 26/11 strikes in Mumbai.
A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and Justices Ghulam Rabbani and Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday gave the directive after taking up the petition filed by Lakhvi, who is being tried with six others by the anti- terrorism court in Rawalpindi on charges of planning and facilitating the Mumbai attacks.
The apex court bench also took up a separate petition filed by the prosecution to challenge the Lahore High Court's verdict that Kasab's statement cannot be used in Pakistani courts.
Lakhvi's counsel Khwaja Sultan told the bench that his client was declared an accused in the Mumbai attacks case in the anti-terrorism court in the light of Kasab's statement recorded by an Indian magistrate.
Sultan contended