A Pakistan court trying seven suspects involved in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks has issued a non-bailable warrant against Fahim Ansari, an Indian national and suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba operative, who is facing trial in the case.

An Anti Terrorism Court in Rawalpindi issued the warrant on the grounds that Ansari had secured a Pakistani passport under a fake name by making a false declaration.

Ansari is being tried in the special sessions court at Arthur Road Jail along with lone arrested 26/11 gunman Ajmal Kasab and co-accused Sabahuddin Ahmed, who had been arrested along with Ansari in 2008. The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force had arrested Ansari in February 2008 for the attack on a CRPF camp in Rampur.

According to the Mumbai Police Crime Branch, when the Uttar Pradesh police had made the arrest, they had seized a Pakistani passport from him issued in the name of ‘Hamaad Hassan’, an identity card and 10 maps showing various locations in Mumbai.

In a dossier given to New Delhi by Islamabad earlier, Pakistani officials confirmed that Ansari had obtained a Pakistani passport by making a false declaration.

Special public prosecutor in the 26/11 trial, Ujjwal Nikam, confirmed that the Pakistani court had issued a warrant against Ansari and added that it would take some time to reach the Mumbai court since it would have to be forwarded through several channels. During the trial, the prosecution examined the UP police officer who arrested Ansari. The officer has deposed about the seizures made from Ansari.

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