Click to play videoNew Delhi: Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone terrorist arrested in the November 26 Mumbai terror attacks, is a Pakistani national. Pakistan's National Security Advisor Mahmud Ali Durrani confirmed this to CNN-IBN on Wednesday.
Sources told CNN-IBN the report confirming Kasab’s nationality has been sent to Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. The report says Kasab has no links to any state agency.
A British newspaper and Pakistani media have shown evidence that Kasab belonged to Faridkot village in Okara district of Punjab province but Islamabad for days has been rejecting their claims by saying that there was no documentary evidence. Massive diplomatic pressure from across the world may have forced Islamabad to change its stance.
Separately, the Dawn News channel, while quoting official sources, confirmed that Kasab was a Pakistani. An unnamed "very senior government official" told the channel that a preliminary investigation carried out by Pakistani law enforcement agencies had established that Kasab was a Pakistani national.
The news channel quoted sources as saying that the preliminary investigation had established that Kasab was a resident of Faridkot was and the son of Amir Kasab and Noor Elahi.
The preliminary investigation had established that the Mumbai attackers were operating alone and had no links with any section of Pakistan's security apparatus, the sources told the news channel.
The identity of the nine other terrorists involved in the Mumbai attacks is yet to be established. The law enforcement agencies are now working to ascertain how Kasab reached Mumbai to carry out the attacks, the sources were quoted as saying.
Much of India's evidence against the terrorists who attacked Mumbai is based on interrogations of Kasab, who was arrested on November 26. He has reportedly told authorities that he and his nine other attackers were Pakistani, he was trained in Pakistan, and his handlers are still there.
The Mumbai attacks began November 26 and lasted for nearly three days. The 10 gunmen attacked 10 sites across India's financial capital, including two five-star hotels, the main train station, popular restaurants and a Jewish centre.
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