Addu City (Maldives), Nov. 10 (ANI): Maintaining that there is not enough evidence against Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik today said Islamabad had no soft corner for anybody and would take action on the basis of credible evidences.
Responding to a question that the UNSC has proscribed Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Malik said: "I differ with you. The UNO has not proscribed it; they have put it on watch list. We are watching them. So, there is a difference. Once we have evidence against any organisation, we ban them and we proscribe them. We are collecting the information, if we have enough evidence against them, we will proscribe them."
"We have to follow legal terms and of course to follow the law. I assure you all my sisters and brothers in India, please understand that we have to follow the law," he added.
When asked to comment on this remarks that there is not enough evidence against Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Kasab, Malik said: "We have been advocating that there is not enough evidence against Jamaat-ud-Dawa, meaning thereby Hafiz Saeed. When we got the first information we arrested Saeed and he was kept in jail and subsequently the highest court, the Supreme Court of Pakistan, bailed him out. Then we registered three FIRs against him, which were quashed by the court. So, that means there was not enough evidence against Saeed"We are trying our best to collect the information. Crime has happened in India, we want information from there and I promise you if there is credible evidence, we will not mind taking action. But we cannot arrest somebody, unless we have credible evidence, which can actually take the legal course and also stand for the test of the court. That's my only view. We will have no soft corner for anybody whether it is Saeed or anybody," he added.
Malik further said both India and Pakistan should join the fight against corruption.
"But what is important is when we talk of Hafiz Saeed, when we talk of Ajmal Kasab, we should not forget about Samjhauta Express. So, both the nations, both the leadership have to go together in hand-in-hand to fight against any terrorist whoever has tried to do any act of terrorism or has done any act of terrorism," he added.
To a poser on the delay in the proposed visit of a judicial commission from Pakistan to carry forward the probe in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, Malik said: "The delay was there because we had requested to India to give the permission as per the orders of our trial court. Now, the permission has come, but we are waiting for the location and of course the place where the judicial commission will go and give the coordinates. We are waiting for the coordinates and the location, the day it comes, within three to four days you will find them in India."(ANI)
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