Islamabad has admitted that DNA samples of two of the nine dead 26/11 attackers have matched with those of their fathers and has produced records to substantiate the nationality of the tenth,Ajmal Kasab. Investigators said they are hoping that Pakistan will be forthcoming about the rest as well at talks between the foreign secretaries later this month. Although the confirmation from Islamabad came in a dossier submitted to New Delhi last year,it had not been talked about as India wanted Pakistan to do more in its crackdown against the Lashkar-e-Toiba handlers blamed for the attack. But with the 26/11 trial in Mumbai nearing completion and authorities struggling to preserve the decomposing bodies of the nine attackers,sources said that further confirmation from Pakistan would help bring a logical conclusion to the case here. Mumbai Police,through New Delhi,had sent DNA samples of all 10 terrorists to authorities in Pakistan. Islamabad got back saying that the samples of Imran Babar alias Abu Akasha and Abul Rehman Chhota alias Saakib had matched with those of their fathers in Multan in Punjab province,sources told The Sunday Express. Babar was one of the two terrorists holed up at the Chabad centre in Nariman House and sources said that Pakistan had also confirmed his identity through a school certificate and statements of some relatives. Chhota was one of the two terrorists who stormed The Oberoi-Trident hotels. The dossier also confirmed that Kasab is a Pakistani national and mentions identification documents referenced by Pakistani investigators to establish this. While being silent on Kasabs DNA sample,the dossier says that his father has been identified in Pakistan. They have also got records from the Urdu medium school from which he dropped out in class four,along with his ration card and voters identification card in Pakistan, said the source. The dossier,however,made no mention about the other seven men,he said. But in an earlier dossier,Pakistan had said that the broad addresses and locations given by Mumbai police for these seven men could not be located. As reported by The Indian Express earlier,Pakistan had,for the first time,also confirmed the role of one of the two Indians charged in the 26/11 attack,although only partially. It had said that Fahim Ansari,a resident of Mumbais Goregaon area,entered Pakistan in November 2007 under the name Hamad Hassan,using a bogus Pakistani passport. Ansari obtained the passport through misdeclaration of facts,it had said without elaborating. Pak investigators cross-checked these facts with their passport office,as well as with airport entry records. But Islamabad was silent on the crucial charge that the alleged maps made by Ansari were handed over to Lashkar handlers in Pakistan who used them to plot and execute 26 The FBI has since accused David Headley,an American national of Pakistani origin in their custody,of also surveying the 26/11 targets and making videos for his Lashkar bosses in Pakistan.
