Click to play videoNew Delhi: Pakistan on Monday downplayed the confession of its national Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab that he was involved in the terrorist attacks on Mumbai.
“It’s confession, not evidence,” Pakistan Defence Minister’s Choudhary Ahmad Mukhtar told CNN-IBN.
Kasab on Monday stunned a Mumbai court when he confessed to his role in the terror attacks which left 180 persons dead and over 300 injured. He also named before the court names of his Pakistani handlers including Abu Hamza, Abu Jindal, Abu Kafa and Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi.
Kasab also alleged that he had been instructed by Hafeez Saeed, the leader of a banned religious charity.
Mukhtar said Kasab could be taking names to save “his skin”. “Just naming does not qualify that they are involved or not involved. There has to be evidence--he could be saying this to save his skin,” he said.
The Pakistani minister said his country would not spare any terrorist and prosecute suspects it had arrested for the Mumbai attacks.
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