NaPak Nation rejects her citizen Kasab's letter

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Pakistan's reluctance to walk the talk on its commitment to stop terrorism was on display yet again on Wednesday when it doubted the authenticity of the letter written by the arrested Mumbai attacker Mohammad Ajmal Kasab seeking legal assistance from the Pakistani government, reports Our Political Bureau from New Delhi.  Reports from Islamabad quoting interior secretary Syed Kamal Shah said the language and contents of the letter did not “match those of a real Pakistani”. “They (Indians) have simply tried to make up a story and have even failed in that too,” Mr Shah said during a visit to the headquarters of the National Database and Registration Authority, Pakistan's national database. Islamabad had contested Ajmal's nationality on the ground that his name did not figure in the computerised data base. Mr Shah repeated interior ministry chief Rehman Malik's contention that no records of Ajmal had been found in the NADRA database.  Incidentally, the database covers only 60 million of Pakistan's total population of over 160 million. Ajmal's father had recently admitted to Dawn newspaper that the gunman whose picture was beamed round the world by the media was his son. Mr Shah said the Indian authorities have not yet shared evidence on the Mumbai attacks with Pakistan.