New Delhi:
Pakistan has refused to claim the bodies of nine attackers of 26/11 which have been lying in a mortuary in Mumbai for over eight months.
India had asked Pakistan to take the bodies of the nine terrorists, all Pakistani nationals, who were killed during gunfight with security personnel, sources said in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Pakistan, however, has not owned them up, delaying their burial, the sources said.
Authorities in Mumbai want to dispose off the bodies as preserving them is a major problem and delay could lead to their decomposition.
Mumbai police has written three letters to the Union Home Ministry, saying that the bodies should be handed over to Pakistan at the earliest.
Addresses of at least four of the deceased are known on the basis of account given by Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist captured during the attacks, according to Mumbai police.
Kasab had given correct addresses of Abu Ismail, who accompanied him at the attack on CST railway station and Abu Aksha and Abu Umar, who carried out attacks at Nariman House and Bada Abdul Rehman, killed at the Taj Mahal hotel.
The other deceased terrorists are Abu Ali, Chhota Abdul Rehman, Afadulla, and Syed Abu Umer.
India had asked Pakistan to take the bodies of the nine terrorists, all Pakistani nationals, who were killed during gunfight with security personnel, sources said in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Pakistan, however, has not owned them up, delaying their burial, the sources said.
Authorities in Mumbai want to dispose off the bodies as preserving them is a major problem and delay could lead to their decomposition.
Mumbai police has written three letters to the Union Home Ministry, saying that the bodies should be handed over to Pakistan at the earliest.
Addresses of at least four of the deceased are known on the basis of account given by Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist captured during the attacks, according to Mumbai police.
Kasab had given correct addresses of Abu Ismail, who accompanied him at the attack on CST railway station and Abu Aksha and Abu Umar, who carried out attacks at Nariman House and Bada Abdul Rehman, killed at the Taj Mahal hotel.
The other deceased terrorists are Abu Ali, Chhota Abdul Rehman, Afadulla, and Syed Abu Umer.
