Pak wants to cross examine 26/11 witnesses

New Delhi. After the court reject findings of judicial commission, which visited India three month ago, Pakistan Authorities has written to india government seeking the cross-examination of key witnesses in the Mumbai attacks case, a special prosecutor of the federal Investigation has said.
An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday termed the finding of the Pakistani judicial commission illegal, which probe the  2008 Mumbai attacks.
Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman said another commission could be sent to Mumbai if the governments of India and Pakistan agreed to allow the cross-examination of witnesses.
He further said the testimonies of four Indian witnesses could be used by prosecutors against the Pakistani accused only if Indian authorities allowed defence lawyers to cross-examine the witnesses.
Special prosecutor Chaudhry, who produced the judicial commission’s 800-page report in the court, told the Dawn newspaper that setting aside the panel’s findings would benefit the accused because the prosecution could not use the testimony of the four key witnesses.
Chaudhry contended that if the seven accused were acquitted, Indian judge SS Shinde, who oversaw proceedings of the commission in Mumbai, would be responsible for their acquittal because Shinde “did not follow the law of evidence and relevant sections of the Criminal Procedure Code”.
He said Judge Shinde had denied the right of cross-examining the Indian witnesses at the request of prosecutor Ujwal Nikam.