Pak panel probing 26/11 arriving in Jan

Pakistan's nine-member judicial commission will travel to India next month to interview key persons in connection with the probe into the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

Pakistan's nine-member judicial commission will travel to India next month to interview key persons in connection with the probe into the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

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Islamabad formally informed New Delhi this week that the Pakistan judicial commission will visit India in January 2012 and the mutually convenient dates of the tour will be finalised soon, official sources said.

The delegation will include Khalid Qureshi, the head of the Federal Investigation Agency's Special Investigation Group, and Muhammad Azhar Chaudhry and Chaudhry Zulifqar, the two main prosecutors.

The commission will take the statements of additional chief metropolitan magistrate RV Sawant Waghule and investigating officer Ramesh Mahale, who have recorded the confessional statement of Ajmal Kasab, to pursue the case in Pakistan. Pakistan also wants the panel to take the statements of the two doctors who carried out the post mortem of the terrorists killed.

A government source said the Bombay HC had been informed about the communication.