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India may allow a Pakistani commission to travel to India to interview key witnesses and other officials in connection with the trial of seven Pakistani suspects in 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case. India, as such, does not have any problem if a commission from Pakistan comes to take statements of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate R V Sawant Waghule and Investigating Officer Ramesh Mahale, who recorded 26/11 convict Ajmal Kasab's statement, and the doctors who carried out the post-mortem of the victims and the terrorists. But, the sources said, it is mandatory to take the view of the high court as the case related to 26/11 is now pending before it. We want the 26/11 case in Pakistan to reach its logical conclusion. We have no issues in allowing them to visit India provided the high court gives its nod, a source said. Special Judge M L Tahaliyani had convicted lone captured 26/11 terrorist Kasab to death in May, subject to confirmation of the sentence by the High Court. On the eve of the second anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks, India asked Pakistan to punish those responsible. Pakistan's interior minister Rehman Malik said last week that the trial of seven Pakistani suspects charged with involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks has been held up because of New Delhi's delay in granting permission for a commission to visit India to interview key witnesses.
