External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said that the mother of Ajmal Amir Kasab, the gunman captured during the 26/11 terror attacks, would be coming to Mumbai to meet her son during the trial, scheduled to begin on Wednesday in a special court inside the Arthur Road Jail.

Campaigning in home constituency Jangipur in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, Mukherjee, responding to questions from reporters that Pakistan had raised the issue of two identical DNA sets in documents submitted by India and wanted more evidence, said: “I just now had a discussion with our Foreign Secretary. If Pakistan wants more documents and proof, we are ready to provide that. But the issue should be resolved without further delay. Pakistan is delaying investigations on some pretext or the other. It should not delay investigations on this issue and that, on this clarification and that.”

“The fact of the matter is that so many people were killed in the terror attack in Mumbai. One terrorist was arrested. He made certain confessions. Ajmal Kasab’s mother is coming to Mumbai to meet him during the trial. These are realities, these are facts. What more evidence do they want?” Mukherjee said.

His comments came a day after Pakistan Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik said that information provided by India on the Mumbai attacks was not sufficient. Malik sought more details, including Kasab’s statement, for “successful prosecution” of suspects arrested by Islamabad.

On December 12, Kasab’s father Amir, speaking to Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper at his house in Faridkot, said: “I was in denial for the first couple of days, saying to myself it could not have been my son... Now I have accepted it. This is the truth. I have seen the picture in the newspaper. This is my son.”

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