Islamabad, July 22
Pakistan, which has rejected New Delhi's demand to hand over underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, has said it will not allow leaders of banned militant groups like Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) to be questioned by the Indian police.
Pakistan will even not furnish records of interrogation of LeT leader Hafiz Mohammed Sayed and JeM chief Masood Azhar till the two countries built a level of trust, Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid M Kasuri told Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN's 'Devil's Advocate' programme.
Asked if Pakistan would allow questioning of terrorist leaders by Indian police, he said: “You are asking very strange things. For example we have not allowed the United States of America which is our ally for the last 50 years (to question disgraced nuclear scientist A Q Khan).” India has made no demand for questioning of leaders of Pakistan-based terror outfits but has asked Islamabad to hand over Dawood and Salahuddin, who are wanted for terrorist and other heinous crimes in the country. The interview will be telecast tomorrow.
To a question on postponement of Foreign Secretary-level talks following the Mumbai blasts, Kasuri said, the SAARC Foreign Secretaries meeting and that of Foreign Ministers to be held in Dhaka on July 31 could provide an opportunity to discuss the future course of the dialogue process.
—PTI
