Ajmal Kasab

Ajmal Kasab:

Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist Ajmal Kasab, who was hanged, early Wednesday morning at the Yerwada jail in Pune, did not last wish & left no will. Kasab last words before he was executed were – “Forgive me Allah!”

According to the jailer Yerwada, Kasab, the only surviving terrorist involved in the Mumbai attacks in November 2008, was very ashamed of his role in the dastardly terrorist attack. The jailer said that Kasab has asked for forgiveness & said: “I swear Allah does not forgive such a mistake. Forgive me Allah!”

Maharashtra Home Department confirmed Wednesday that 26th November Mumbai terror attack convict Ajmal Kasab was hanged in the prison 7:30AM Yerwada Pune. President Pranab Mukherjee had rejected his request pity on November 5, & Interior Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has signed on 7 November. The order was then signed by the Government of Maharashtra on November 8, said Interior Minister

"His performance is a tribute to the victims of 26th November attacks," said Interior Minister of Maharashtra, RR Patil. CM Prithviraj Chavan told CNN-IBN that Kasab was moved out of Arthur Road Jail Mumbai to Pune Yerwada jail 2 days ago on Monday. Yerwada Jail is for prisoners & includes provisions for their implementation. The CM admitted that the secret was kept on running Kasab as they did not compromise the security situation in any way.

The sources said that Kasab has provided all information before signing & jail manual was followed. When asked for his last wish & if he had a will, Kasab said no. Yerwada jail sources said that the High Court had been asked to inform the family of Kasab.

Ajmal Kasab was a soldier in a chain that crosses the venal terrorist training camps on the outskirts of the big cities of Pak links with militants in Pak-occupied Kashmir & ends at GHQ Rawalpindi.

The sanction of terror comes from the highest level.

If it does not, Hafiz Saeed would not be allowed to spread his poison openly, barely disguising the Jamaat-ud-Dawa as charity. Without money, weapons, training & punishment from the creation of Pak, 26th November would have been impossible to execute.

26th November was a defining moment. Until then, the Pak Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) & military had followed a policy of low intensity terrorism by proxy. The attack against the parliament was an exception. Most terrorist plots aimed at the trains, buses & markets - the poor have suffered the most & their cases were quickly forgotten.

26th November changed all that. Kasab was captured, imprisoned, tried & executed in large part because of the bravery of some policemen Mumbai, particularly Tukaram Ombale who died while stopping near Girgaum Chowpatty, south Mumbai, while trying to escape in a hijacked Skoda car.

The three days that Kasab & 9 other Paki terrorists held Mumbai hostage have left a scar on the city. Kasab execution will not heal completely until the men who trained, financed him, indoctrinated & mentor him brought to justice.

What is the point of hanging Kasab mean? Consider the context. Firstly, it comes on the heels of the sudden cancellation of the planned trip Pak Interior Minister Rehman Malik in India this week.

Second, it was preceded by an unusually strong statement by the PPM & the PPM Manmohan Singh will not visit Pak in the near future as progress on the perpetrators of 26th November the book was unsatisfactory.

3rd, it is the fastest decision to reject an application for pardon by President of India. Pranab Mukherjee has 19 mercy pleas of others before him, 300 detainees are currently in the corridor of death. In the office of just four months, the president has shown firmness Mukherjee absent from its predecessor.

Pak has been informed of the hanging Kasab in advance by letter or fax. The High Commission in New Delhi reluctantly agreed communication that Pak has long been recognized Kasab was one of its citizens. This claim continues denial is exactly what it seems - pretense. Pak’s military establishment is deeply complicit with the terrorists of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) & the JuD.

As David Coleman Headley (original name Daood Sayed Gilani) & others have testified, the senior officers of the Pak Army & the ISI were directly involved in the training, funding & mentoring for terrorist attacks in India .

The intensity & frequency of these attacks have decreased since the 26th November for 2 reasons.

One, the U.S. war against Al-Qaeda has established important Paki military resources & the attention of North India & South Waziristan. Attacks against military targets in Pak Tehreek-e-Taliban, which is hostile to the Paki establishment (unlike the Haqqani & Hekmatyar ne2rks that support Rawalpindi) also have the distraction Islamabad.

2 intense United States (& more recently Saudi) diplomatic pressure on Pak led to the expulsion of terrorist fugitives as Abu Mohammad Fasih Jundal & Riyadh. Until last year, Pak has relied on Saudi Arabia as a source of funds & a haven for terrorists. But with the change sweeping West Asia, Wahhabi monarchy of Saudi Arabia is under pressure.

The protests in Bahrain neighbor (who has a Shiite majority) were suppressed with the help of the Saudi army. More protests against the dictatorial monarchies broke in the last days in Jordan, until recently, a relatively stable Hashemite kingdom.

Wedged between the Saudis & the Americans suddenly chastened relentless - 2 ancient pillars of support - the options have narrowed Pak terrorists.

India growing influence of economic, military & diplomatic now present in New Delhi with the ability to cauterize the terrorist threat from Pak to the source - Rawalpindi GHQ - when India-centric, Scotch-Swilling Paki generals still harbor ill will on Bangladesh & Kargil & entertain atavistic notions legendary Pak’s ability to put pressure on India with the old tactics of terrorism by proxy.

Unfortunately, while the educated Pakis form a constituency size for peace in India, most ordinary Pakis continue to be fed a diet of anti-India propag&a. Misinformation starts school with textbooks spreading poison India. Rising politicians like Imran Khan bow to populism harping on Kashmir & the treatment of medieval Taliban gloves.

Former dictators like Pervez Musharraf, the "butcher of Kargil" are discredited everywhere except in India where he finds a ready audience for his solutions to the Kashmir problem, including "demilitarization" & the disarmament of the Indian security forces. He did not add that, first; Pak funded by terrorists should be unarmed or have a free run of J & K.

Musharraf also raises the old myth of 1948-vintage UN resolutions on J & K when he knows perfectly well that these resolutions are not valid because they were conditional on canceling the Pak occupied Kashmir to Pak

"Kasab was calm before the execution"

Minutes before his execution, Kasab appeared to be nervous, but was silent prayers & offered a prison official said.

A file picture of Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving Paki gunman involved in the Mumbai attacks. 

"From his body language, it could be noted that he was very nervous. However, he remained calm before he was taken from his cell for hanging, "the official said.

Kasab also offered prayers & asked if his family was informed in advance of hanging that prison authorities have responded in the affirmative, the official said.

"I swear by God, will do no such thing (Allah Kasam aisi galti nahi Dubara karunga)," were the last words uttered by him.

Kasab end came five days before the fourth anniversary of the brutal terrorist attacks that have killed & injured 166,300 people. 9 of its employees, who have infiltrated into Mumbai carnage for three days, were secretly buried in the city in January 2010.

Hanging also comes a day before the winter session of Parliament & weeks ahead of Gujarat assembly election in December.

"Tell my Ammi," was the message conveyed by Kasab, who was hanged on Wednesday, when he was told about his Nov. 21 execution, an official source.

Nooree Lai, Kasab's mother, was apparently the person closest to him that he pronounced her name when asked about his last wish, according to the same sources.

After the formalities, Interior Minister RK Singh wrote to the Foreign Secretary Rajan Mathai informed Kasab's mother & other family members who are in Pak.

As a result, the authority, the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, has sent a letter to his mother by post on Tuesday, fulfilling his last wish, the sources said.

Union Minister of Interior stated that a letter was sent to the Commission of Pak in New Delhi, informing them of the decision to suspend Kasab. When the letter was not accepted, one was faxed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pak. But there was no answer.

Kasab - who was just 21 years old when he led the brutal attack - was sentenced to death four counts & sentenced to imprisonment for five counts of charges, including murder, war in India & weapons possession.

He was initially sentenced to death by a special trial court on 6 May 2010.

The Bombay High Court upheld the verdict on February 21st last year, followed by a similar decision by the Supreme Court on August 29. Finally, the President Mukherjee dismissed his appeal on November 5th mercy.

"It took the Government of Maharashtra under 2 weeks to hang Kasab, after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected clemency November 5. I forwarded to Maharashtra Government on November 8, "Interior Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Union said in New Delhi.

"Pak has been informed, but there is no demand for the body Kasab," he has said, adding that the whole operation had to be conducted under secrecy because of the sensitivities involved & all procedures were followed due.

Last trip Ajmal Kasab in Arthur Road Jail in Central Jail Yerawada, November 19-20:

Ajmal Kasab to transport from Mumbai Arthur Road Jail in Pune Yerawada prison before dawn on November 20.

DGP Sanjeev Dayal calls in prisons ADG Meeran Borwankar to develop a plan. Some officers are processed in the loop, say less details. Police commandos & 2 prison guards are ready, but the identity of the accused is not revealed.

The exercise is coordinated between the office of the DGP Maharashtra, Mumbai Police Crime Branch of the Mumbai police, Maharashtra fight against terrorism Squad & complementary Branch police (prisons).

6 similar to research vehicles balls are in service. A few hours before the operation, the vehicles are controlled in position. Dispersion vehicle & reach the limits of Mumbai at different times. Kasab is prepared for the trip after he had his dinner on November 19.

Vehicles leave for Pune after midnight. Some, including one carrying the Kasab, leave Arthur Road Jail; others join the convoy at different points. No decoys are used. Barricades are removed at the boundary of the city. Across Mumbai, reserve police are queued.

Vehicles do not stop anywhere along the way. They run at a steady speed on the Mumbai-Pune highway, keeping constant distance from each other. It is not clear how they crossed the toll nakas along the way. They reach Yerawada jail before sunrise. The baton is passed Borwankar & prison staff takes over.

Chaitraly Deshmukh & Prasannakumar Keskar

Of the 56 prisoners hanged in the prison Yerwada since independence, Ajmal Amir Kasab is youngest. Kasab to hang on Wednesday came after the gap of 17 years.

The last condemned to be hanged in the prison of Yerwada was based on Alibaug Sudhakar Joshi, who was hanged August 26, 1995.

According to jail records department, Joshi had been sentenced in the case of a robbery & triple murder in Mumbai.

In 1988, he flew his employer, who was a businessman, & killed him & his 2 children. He had confessed to the crime & session’s court sentenced him to death. The Bombay High Court & the Supreme Court upheld the verdict.

The prison has been sentenced to hanging in some cases. The four sensational sentenced to Abhyankar Joshi murder case of 1976 families that had shaken Pune was hanged in Yerwada prison in 1983. The accused committed ten murders between January 1976 & March 1977.In October 1992, the assassins of General Arun Kumar Vaidya, Harjinder Singh "Jinda" & Sukha Sukhvinder Singh were hanged in the prison. Shortly before they were hanged there an attempt was made to release them from prison by smuggling a gun inside.The prison has a total of 29 prisoners on death row, awaiting execution.

Among them are 10 sentenced in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.