A Pakistani judicial commission will visit India on March 12 as part of the probe into the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday. Malik made the remarks during a meeting with Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik. Malik was briefed by the envoy on the judicial commission’s planned visit to India, officials said.
He said the judicial commission would visit India on March 12 and directed the high commissioner to inform Indian authorities about the visit. The Indian government had earlier asked Pakistan to send the commission between February 1 and 10. However, the panel could not go ahead with the visit due to various reasons, including questions raised about the panel’s notification by lawyers defending the seven Pakistani suspects accused of involvement in the Mumbai incident. At a hearing on Tuesday, the anti-terrorism court conducting the trial of the seven suspects asked the prosecution lawyers to present a fresh notification about the commission’s visit to India to interview key officials. On the other hand, official sources in New Delhi said the Pakistanis had sought new dates for the commission’s visit but a decision in this regard was yet to be made.
