Pakistan has asked India to send all the 24 Indian witnesses to depose before a Pak court holding the 2008 Mumbai terror attack trial. The chief prosecutor Chaudhry Azhar told a news ageat Pakistan’s foreign ministry has written to the Indian government asking it to send witnesses there for recording statements in the Court so that the trial can further move ahead.
He said the Anti-Terrorism Court in Islamabad has already completed recording the statements of all Pakistani witnesses in the case.
The court is holding the trial of the seven arrested accused including the 26/11 attack mastermind and LeT operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi. Last month the court had ordered Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency FIA to present all 24 Indian witnesses before it. 166 people were killed and closed to 300 were injured in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack.