27 February,2009 04:59 PM IST | | IANS
Pakistan on Friday sought to further muddy the waters on the 26/11 Mumbai terror strikes, saying the Ajmal Amir Qasab, the lone gunman captured during the mayhem, didn't take the sea route to the Mumbai.
"There is no proof that Qasab took the sea route," Pakistani Navy chief Admiral Noman Bashir said at a press conference.
At the same time, he admitted that patrolling the waters on the Pakistani side of the international border off the Gujarat coast was "difficult" due to the dispute over the Sir Creek.
India says Qasab and nine other Pakistanis had set sail from Karachi, hijacked a trawler after entering Indian waters and finally used a rubber boat to sneak into Mumbai November 26, 2008 and embarked on a killing spree that lasted over 60 hours.
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Qasab is now in the custody of the Mumbai police, which on Wednesday filed a charge sheet naming him and 34 others, all of them operatives of the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror groups, for the Mumbai carnage that claimed the lives of more than 170 people.
Qasab is also one of the eight men named in a case registered by Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency on the Mumbai attacks.
Bashir also sought to discount suggestions that Pakistan was engaged in an arms race with India.
