FBI in Kasab village; Pak decision on legal aid after own probe

ISLAMABAD: As FBI sleuths landed in Ajmal Amir Iman Kasab's native place of Faridkot, Pakistan on Thursday said it would act on giving consular access to the lone captured Mumbai terrorist after completing its own inquiry into his admission that he was a citizen of the country.

Meanwhile, Islamabad also said it was opposed any war with India and wants sustained engagement and dialogue to allay each other's concerns.

"We are currently carrying out our own internal investigations to ascertain whether Ajmal Kasab is from Pakistan. We will deal with this issue after our investigations are complete," Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Sadiq told reporters here.

Kasab had recently sent a letter to the Pakistan government seeking legal aid.

Sadiq's comments came a day after Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah alleged that India had cooked up a story about Kasab being a Pakistani and had "even failed in that too".

An FBI team yesterday visited Faridkot, Kasab's village in Okara district of Punjab province to probe his links to the deadly terror strikes and was still continuing its investigation, diplomatic and other sources said.

Kasab's father admitted in an interview to a newspaper last month that the attacker whose pictures were flashed around the world by the media was his son.