Pakistan files case against Kasab

NEW DELHI: Pakistan on Wednesday registered a case against Mohammed Ajmal Amir alias Kasab, the lone terrorist captured alive during the Mumbai carnage.

The media reports say charges have been filed against Kasab and 13 other people after the country's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) conducted a probe into the Mumbai attacks.

Islamabad has ordered the FIA probe after India alleged that the Mumbai attacks were plotted in Pakistan. Pakistan had initially claimed that Kasab was not its national.

IANS reports that external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee declined to comment on Pakistan's reported decision to file charges against Ajmal Amir Kasab.

"We have yet to get a report from (Pakistan). The problem is unless we have official information from Pakistani authorities, it is difficult for any (Indian) official spokesperson to comment," Mukherjee told reporters outside his office.

"Let us wait for what they have done and let us wait for the official report from Pakistan," Mukherjee said, PTI reports.

When reporters sought his comment on Mumbai attacks not being discussed by US special envoy Richard Holbrooke's meetings with the Pakistani leadership, the minister made it clear that India did not form a mandate of the US official.

"It is not so far his concern. His mandate is to deal with Pakistan and Afghanistan, not India," Mukherjee said.

He said Holbrooke is visiting India and "we will discuss" the Mumbai attacks and its aftermath with him.