26/11 attack: India awaits Pakistan response on witness testimony
Pakistan seems to have hit another roadblock with the Imran Khan government not responding to India’s offer to host a judicial commission for examinin
Editorial Staff
26/11 attack: India awaits Pakistan response on witness testimony NEW DELHI : In the middle of Islamabad’s apparent clampdown on UN designated terrorists, the Mumbai attacks trial in Pakistan seems to have hit another roadblock with the Imran Khan government not responding to India’s offer to host a judicial commission for examining witnesses in Mumbai. Official sources said Pakistan had ignored India’s bid to facilitate the questioning of the remaining 27 witnesses in the case either through video conferencing or by sending a team to examine them. Pakistan has instead chosen to attribute the delay in trial to India’s refusal to send witnesses to Pakistan. Previously, the trial was affected by frequent change of judges and prosecutors. As first reported by TOI on August 18 last year, the government offered to host a judicial commission after Pakistan approached India saying the witnesses needed to testify within 90 days as per a court directive. This had raised hopes of some progress in the 11-year-old trial that has been marred by repeated transfer of…
