Ajmal Amir Kasab, lone Pakistani terrorist arrested for the Mumbai attacks.(TOI photo)
From Times Of India:
ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI: In a major blow to Pakistan, the father of the lone captured terrorist in Mumbai has identified Ajmal as his son.
Breaking his silence, Amir Kasab of Faridkot village in Pakistan's Okara district told Pakistan's premier newspaer Dawn, "This is the truth. I have seen the picture in the newspaper. This is my son Ajmal." The admission makes a serious dent in Islamabad's claim that the terrorists did not come from Pakistan.
The newspaper quoted Amir as saying, "I was in denial for the first couple of days, saying to myself it could not have been my son. Now I have accepted it." Dawn said his house is a few kilometres from Deepalpur on the way to Kasur.
In the days after the Mumbai attacks, when India revealed that the lone terrorist caught hailed from Faridkot in Pakistan, the country's president Asif Zardari scoffed at the suggestion. In an interview to CNN, he said he seriously doubted whether Ajmal was Pakistani, instead choosing to describe the terrorists as "stateless".
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My Comment: A father and son story that ends very badly.