Pakistan shunned Ajmal Kasab hanging letter: Govt

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Agencies: New Delhi, Nov 21 2012, 11:32 IST

India had informed in advance Pakistan and the family members of Ajmal Kasab about the decision to hang the 2008 Mumbai attack terrorist but Islamabad refused to acknowledge the letter, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said today.

"The External Affairs Ministry through our mission in Islamabad had informed the Pakistan government about Kasab's hanging. When they did not accept the letter, they were communicated through fax," Shinde told reporters here, hours after the hanging of the only captured terrorist in the attack.

Union Home Secretary R K Singh said family members of Kasab, who live in Pakistan, had also been informed by Indian High Commission in Islamabad.

"His family members were communicated through courier by our High Commission. We have the receipt of the courier sent and that was later given to the Maharashtra government," Singh said.

Shinde said so far no one has claimed the body of 25-year-old Kasab and if Pakistan claims it, India would give it to the neighbouring country.

The Home Minister said there should not be any problem if Kasab is buried in India.

"I do not think there will be any trouble (if Kasab is buried in India) because India has suffered too much and everyone.... and this country has seen the tragedy. 166 people were killed during three days of the carnage" that began on November 26, 2008, he said.

Kasab was hanged in Pune's Yerawada jail at 7.30 AM, Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil said in Mumbai .

Giving the sequence of events leading to the execution this morning, Shinde

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Introspection

Deen | 28-Nov-2012Reply | Forward

In life and death Kasab has become a grim symbol of the fate being faced by the majority of the population in Pakistan. Brainwashedby mullahs, politicians, army, landlords and ignored by the media who wants to project a suited booted genteel chaste Urdu speaking chest thumping jet setting people populating their country. Kasab and his family that get killed everyday in bomb attacks or joining terror training camps without any guarantee of prosperity but a promise of escaping bonded labor are sometimes empathized with by Imran Khan when he visits madrasas. And he goes on a religious overdrive. But is that what is needed to be done for their well being?

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U | 27-Nov-2012Reply | Forward

Pakistan must be gifted the body - as a reminder of the betrayal of their leadersin politics, in army in media, in judiciary , in property ownership, in employment, in education and in every sphere of life trading in the dint of the Aam aadmi's bodies used without value. No more bodies no more value totheir existence. India must be bold enough, and deliver the body to Ajmal Kasab's family as a reminder of what is happening to their kids without their consent in the name of money - that wasn't there when they chose to give birth to the kids. Along with a factory of condoms and contraceptives so the kids get free and the elders.