Kasab mother coming: Pranab

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to day said that the mother of Ajmal Amir Kasab, the gunman captured during the 26/11 terror attacks, would be coming to Mumbai to meet her son during the trial, scheduled to begin tomorrow in a special court inside the Arthur Road Jail.

Campaigning in home constituency Jangipur in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, Mukherjee, responding to questions from reporters that Pakistan had raised the issue of two identical DNA sets in documents submitted by India and wanted more evidence, said: “I just now had a discussion with our Foreign Secretary. If Pakistan wants more documents and proof, we are ready to provide that. But the issue should be resolved without further delay. Pakistan is delaying investigations on some pretext or the other.

It should not delay investigations on this issue and that, on this clarification and that.” “The fact of the matter is that so many people were killed in the terror attack in Mumbai.

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Attack part of larger ‘design’, says India, Rice for tough Pak action

AS US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made it clear today that Pakistan will have to take “direct and tough action” even if the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks were “non-state actors”, India went another step ahead, linking the Mumbai strikes to the blasts in Jaipur,Delhi, Bangalore and calling it a “design” to attack India.

Rice, who leaves for Islamabad tomorrow where she is expected to convey the same tough message, sought to underline US support and cooperation, asking the Indian establishment to work systematically through the investigations and assuring that Washington will do all it can to get Islamabad to extend help.

After her talks with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Rice said: “The fact is non-state actors perform from the confines of the state. There has to be direct and tough action (by Islamabad).” She made it clear that “non-state actors” were “still a matter of your (Pakistan) responsibility that somehow relates to your territory”.

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