Nepalese ambassador to Pakistan denies arresting Mumbai attack suspect

Nepal's ambassador to Pakistan Saturday refused the claim of a
Pakistani lawyer that the only assailant arrested alive in the Mumbai
attacks had been detained inKathmandu in 2006 and handed over to the
Indian officials.
"The embassy wants to make it pure that Ajmal Kasab was neither
arrested nor offered over to any other country," Nepalese Ambassador
to Pakistan Bala Bahadur Kanwal told a news convention.
A Pakistani lawyer appointed C.M. Farooque said that Mohammed Ajmal
Kasab, the only suspect arrested alive in the Mumbai onslaughts last
month, had gone to Kathmandu before 2006 on a business visit when he
was arrested by Nepali police and handed over to India.
The lawyer also said that nearly 200 Pakistanis were held along with
Kasab in a secret detention place so that they could be used to serve
some ulterior designs later, the News Network International news
agency announced.
"The people arrested in Nepal had gone there on legal visas for
business but Indian agencies are in the habit of capturing Pakistanis
from Nepal and afterwards implicating them in the Mumbai-like
incidents to malign Pakistan," the lawyer alleged.
India expressed that Kasab belonged to Faridkot in Okara region of
Punjab region but local elected representative and the people in the
town said that no person by the name of Kasab had ever lived there.
Bahadur Kanwal said the Nepalese embassy in Islamabad had not issued
visa to Ajmal Kasab and that he had never toured Nepal.