A Pakistani judicial commission probing the 2008 Mumbai attacks will visit India in February to record the statements of witnesses and investigators of the 2008 mayhem, local media reported on Saturday.
The final dates of the visit are yet to be decided, but tentatively the Pakistani panel will be in India next month, Indo-Asian News Service quoted an official source as saying.
The development comes after the Bombay High Court gave its nod to the Pakistani judicial commission to record the statements of Mumbai terror attack witnesses. The court has also given an in-principle approval for the visit and has informed the Indian Home Ministry about it, according to the report.
The Indian Home Ministry would soon convey this to Pakistan and the two countries would then finalise the dates for the commission’s visit, said the report.
Pakistan has expressed a desire to record the statement of magistrate R V Sawant Waghule, who had recorded the confession of Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone terrorist captured alive during the Mumbai attack in November 2008.
This, according to Islamabad, will help in prosecuting the suspected masterminds of the 2008 terror strike on the Indian financial hub.