Click to play videoNew Delhi: Just days after setting up of the joint anti-terror mechanism in Havana, the deal is due for its first crucial test as the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the Mumbai Police cracked the 7/11 Mumbai blasts case.
The ATS named 11 Pakistani nationals as accused but Pakistan refused to hand over any of the suspects.
But this is not first time Pakistan has refused to hand over any of the suspects to India.
In 2002 the Indian government gave Pakistan a list of 20 terrorists including prime accused in the 1993 Mumbai blasts, underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, his aides Ibrahim Abdul Razak (better known as Tiger Memon), his brother Ayub Memon and gangester Chhota Shakeel.
Five accused in the 1999 hijack of IC-814 -- Shahid Akhtar Saeed, Zahoor Ibrahim Mistri, Sunny Ahmed Qazi, Shaqir and Mohammed Ibrahim Athar (younger brother of Jaish founder Maulana Masood Azhar) were released in exchange for the hijacked passengers also figured on the list.
The list also had names of Jammat-u-Dawaa chief, Hafiz Mohammad Syed (patron of Lashkar-e-Toiba) and Kashmiri terrorists Syed Salahuddin and Mushtaq Zargar.
Khalistani militants Gajinder Singh, Ranjit Singh alias Neeta, Paramjit Singh Panjwar, Wadhawa Singh Babbar and Lakhbir Singh Rode also figured on the list of the most-wanted.
However, the list remained only on paper, for Paksitan denied the presence of any of the wanted men on its territory, in spite of the fact that most of the men are on the Interpol and US terror watch list.
This surely puts a big questionmark on how Pakistan intends to put the new anti-terror mechanism to work.
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