Mumbai Terror Attack Kasab belongs to Pakistan, says Sharif

Challenging Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's assertion that there was no proof that the arrested Mumbai attacker hailed from
Pakistan's Punjab province, former premier Nawaz Sharif has said that the suspect's village was cordoned off and his parents were not allowed to meet anyone.

"I have checked myself. His (Ajmal Amir Iman alias Ajmal Kasab) house and village has been cordoned off by the security agencies. His parents are not allowed to meet anybody. I don't understand why it has been done," Sharif, who hails from Punjab, said in an interview to Geo News channel.

"The people and media should be allowed to meet Iman's parents so that the truth could come out in the open," he said, adding that "We need some kind of introspection."

Zardari, who earlier acknowledged that the perpetrators of the Mumbai carnage could be 'non-state' actors from Pakistan, has now said there is still no "real evidence" that the terrorists who attacked Mumbai came from Pakistan.

"Have you seen any evidence to that effect? I have definitely not seen any real evidence to that effect," Zardari told BBC in an interview this week.

Pakistani security agencies and local officials in Faridkot have launched a cover-up since India made it public that Kasab belonged to the village in Punjab province and his father acknowledged to a Pakistani newspaper, that the gunman captured in India was his son.

Sharif also slammed Zardari's rule, saying the functioning of the current Pakistan People's Party-led government is making Pakistan look like a "failed state".
Pakistan presents the picture of a failed and ungovernable state due to the absence of the government's writ and the country urgently needs a new roadmap to pull it out of the problems it is currently facing, he said.

The PML-N chief said the dictatorial rule of former President Pervez Musharraf had made the country ungovernable.

"Since 1977, the army has ruled the country for more than 20 years... A state subjected to frequent military intervention in politics can only become ungovernable."

He said India should have shared intelligence about the Mumbai attacks with Pakistan instead of approaching the UN Security Council.

Sharif also criticised what he described as the government's "clarifications" regarding the purported violation of Pakistani airspace by Indian fighter jets.

Noting that Pakistan was getting isolated in the international community, Sharif said there is a need to find the root causes of terrorism. He also condemned Zardari's reported statement that US drone attacks in Pakistan's tribal areas would continue.

The government should make it clear to the US that such attacks went against the country's integrity and would not be tolerated, he said.

Though the PPP-led government had been in power for ten months, there was little hope of any improvement in the affairs of the state, Sharif said, adding that it was up to the nation to decide whether to make Pakistan a failed state or a successful state.

Sharif said the PML-N wanted an independent judiciary and the repeal of the 17th constitutional amendment, which gives the President sweeping powers, including the ability to dissolve parliament and to dismiss the Prime Minister.

The PML-N will pressure the government to implement the Charter of Democracy, which according to him, was the "will" of slain PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto. Sharif and Bhutto signed the Charter in 2006 when they launched a joint movement against Musharraf while they were both in exile.

The Charter envisages wide-ranging reforms, including the scrapping of the President's powers, making the judiciary independent and clipping the powers of the military.

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[gurushack]

I think pakistanies shuld stop pretending and accept the truth ,it hurts but the fact is there for the world to see,truth will prevail.They have to clean up and join the civilized world before its too late.

[cowboy8350]

truth is front of you pakistan

[gauravcurious]

where is madarchod defence analyst zaid hamid of pakhijristan ho was saying mumbai terror attack a drama, behan kae laude ye video dikhao india main bulake, aur mehwaannawaazi main suar ki tatti khilao, maa ke laude ko, har baat main jhooth bolta hai, jase baaqi duniya chtuiya aur saare akal mand allah ki gaand se nikle hain pakistan main.

[gauravcurious]

haan to porki bhosadchodon kasab jase 10 ne mumbai ki gaand maari, lo bhosdiwaalon humne 3 saal main poore pakistan ki gaand ka bhosda bana diya kab kahan bomb fatega, pata bhi nahi chalega.

[gauravcurious]

saale nadarchod, rehman malik ne maan liya openely aur behan ke laude zaid hamid ke follwers kehte hai ki yeh sab to india ka drama tha.

[mycanal]

@SuperImranbaloch well said Baloch: When come to India, we punjabi,Balouchi, Sindhi, kashmir, sunni, shia etc all are one and united against hindustan.

[mycanal]

@rocky9706 well said.: I and whole Pakistan agrees...we will use Atomic power if needed...we dont care aobut this temporary life....but we will not let India pressure us, at any cost.. about his statement: Adha Ganja, pura khabees) Nawaz Shareef, he only care about opposing Zardari

[mycanal]

Adha Ganja, pura khabees) Nawaz Shareef: he just said it to hurt and oppose Zardari....and put ppp in trouble nothing else..As a mattter of fact it is a straight lie.

[JustAStoner]

@rocky9706 bahot gandi maut likhenge tumhare liye saale kanjaro

[mrasharif1]

is true