Trial of Kasab and some Questions

As the case of Mumbai terror attack or to be precise, most recent terror attack on 26/11 reaches at crucial stage, there are some interesting twist and turns. Now lone arrested terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab has change of heart and confessed his role in the terror act. So people are getting restless and impatient and want the judgment to be passed immediately. What people are forgetting or not realising is, Kasab is only one among the long list of accused. There are two other accused in this case who have been arrested and are part of the same trial namely Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin and rest of them are still at large and in Pakistan.
There was no doubt regarding the fate of Ajmal Kasab but this trial will have major ramification on the people at large and are in Pakistan, because if these people are pronounced guilty by this court then there could be international pressure on Pakistan to hand over these people to India or put them on trial in Pakistan itself. There local courts can consider the judgment of courts in other country while trying people in Pakistan.
Also it will take nearly, only another month for all the witnesses to be examined and as New York Times this month has already declared this attack as “most well documented terrorist attack any where” so we can be sure of this case to be water tight and no escaping for any accused.
Now coming back to confession of Kasab, legal luminaries and media are debating the extent of truth in the confession and the motives, but one thing that stands apart and gets highlighted is the timing of the confession. The day India Pakistan come out with diplomatic declaration which includes Baluchistan, very next day Pakistan moves forward and names 26/11 accused and acknowledges 3 terrorists as its own and then next day Kasab confesses for the crime.
These sudden chains of events are enough to put question mark on the timing of confession.
One thing is for sure that the crimes that Kasab has done, he will be handed capital punishment as this case falls under the rarest of rare category. Once this punishment is announced then there could be a curious turn, if Pakistan comes with a proposal to swap Kasab with Sarabjit Singh. Then what will the government do? Pakistan’s dilly daling on Sarabjit Singh could be precursor of this swapping proposal.
Also one question that keep cropping is the extent of local involvement in this terror attack. As per police investigations only four Indians are found to be part of support group and all the four are in custody. They are Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin and two other Mukhtar Ahmed of Srinagar and Tausif Rehman of Kolkatta. Last two are named for providing SIM cards to the terrorists. Isn’t this unbelievable that a terror attack of this magnitude has only four locals involved in it.
Is there nobody who would have provided the local logistics, or nobody guiding attackers through the lanes of Mumbai or most importantly nobody from the sleeper cell of LET informing the Handlers of this attack in Pakistan about the movement of security forces. Police says they have checked all call records and haven’t found any thing to suggest so. Point taken. But what if the local informers were not calling but were typing the information and saving as draft in their email account which was being accessed by handlers in Pakistan. In this scenario information went from this side of the border to other side without actually being sent.
This is a very popular method used by LET. When recently one LET commander named Madani was caught in Delhi, Police claimed this is how he was passing the information and interacting with his people. Now what stopped LET from using similar technique during Mumbai attack.
Immediately after attack there were reports in media that these attackers were provided with lunch in the afternoon of 26/11 by an Indian and at least there were 5 people who helped attackers after they landed in Mumbai.
Now suddenly there is complete silence on these questions which gives the feeling, part played by locals is being pushed under the carpet. Now the question is why this is being done so, who is instrumental in this and who is the government trying to save and more importantly is it only what it sees or it could be more? We may never come to know.