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Zardari rules out handing over non-state 26/11 perpetrators to India | While Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has
ruled out handing over the accused November 2008 Mumbai terror attack 'non state actors' to India, he remains only 'hopeful' of bringing the perpetrators, who
wrecked the relationship between both countries, to justice. In an interview to
a television channel on the last day of his five-day visit to China , Zardari
said that the 26/11 perpetrators could not be handed over to India as there was
no extradition treaty between the two neighbours. “I do not think it works like
that between the two nations. There has to be bilateral treaties of that sort,
which do not exist between us. But we are trying those people in Pakistan . Hopefully
we will bring the offenders to justice,” The Daily Times quoted Zardari, as saying.
Zardari’s statement comes days ahead of External Affairs Minister S M Krishna’s
meeting with his Pakistan counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi. Krishna is scheduled
to hold talks with Qureshi in Islamabad on July 15. Referring to the upcoming
talks and the recent foreign secretary level deliberations, Zardari said that
though “non-state actors” had succeeded in hampering the relationship between
both countries, India ’s “mature democracy” would show “foresight” in taking forward
the resumed talks. “The non-state actors managed to stall it for some time. Now,
I think it is back on track and hopefully will go forward,” he said. Commenting
on India ’s relationship with the US , Zardari said Islamabad did not objectto
the Indo-US civil nuclear deal and expects the same from New Delhi over Beijing
’s proposal to build two new nuclear reactors in Pakistan . “We complement those
ties. When India was going with civil nuclear deal with the US , we did not oppose
it, so we did not mind that our friends have influence on other friends and we
expect the same from others,” he said. |
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