Pak won't allow India to quiz LeT leaders: Kasuri

He says Pakistan will not even furnish records of interrogation of terrorists until two countries build a level of trust.

Pakistan, which has rejected New Delhi's demand to hand over underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, has said it will not allow leaders of banned terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) to be questioned by Indian police.

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Pakistan will even not furnish records of interrogation of LeT leader Hafiz Mohammed Sayed and JeM chief Masood Azhar till the two countries built a level of trust, Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid M Kasuri told Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN's 'Devil's Advocate' programme.

Asked if Pakistan will allow questioning of terrorist leaders by Indian police, he said "you are asking very strange things. For example we have not allowed the United States of America which is our ally for the last 50 years (to question disgraced nuclear scientist AQ Khan)."

India has made no demand for questioning of leaders of Pakistan based terror outfits but has asked Islamabad to hand over Dawood and Salahuddin, who are wanted for terrorist and other heinous crimes in the country. The interview will be telecast on Sunday.

To a question on postponement of Foreign Secretary-level talks following the Mumbai blasts, Kasuri said, the SAARC Foreign Secretaries meeting and that of foreign ministers to be held in Dhaka on July 31 could provide an opportunity to discuss the future course of the dialogue process.