Operation X-Allah Kasam, Aisi Ghalati Dobara Nahi Hogi-Khaidi # C-7096

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[size=4][color=#000000][font=arial]More than 200 people wanted Kasab pardoned[/font][/color][b]:[/b][color=#000000][font=arial] More than 203 people had signed a petition addressed to President Pranab Mukherjee, who rejected the clemency petition filed by Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, asking him to pardon the 25-year-old sentenced to death in the 26/11 terror attacks case.[/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=arial]Mumbai-based lawyer Yug Chaudhry had written to the President on October 28 and sought public support for his petition seeking the commutation of the death sentence handed out to Kasab, that was executed at Pune's Yerwada Jail on Wednesday morning[/font][/color][/size]

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[size=4][color=#000000][font=arial]In Pakistan, a muted reaction to Kasab�s Killing[/font][/color][b]:[/b][color=#000000][font=arial] Initial reaction in Pakistan to India's execution of Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani citizen whose confessed role in the deadly 2008 attacks in Mumbai had become an awkward embarrassment, was studiously muted. Even the most popular cable television station, Geo News, downplayed the development in its morning news bulletins, offering no analysis or comment. The government offered no official statement.[/font][/color][/size]

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[size=4][color=#000000][font=arial]Pak: Received India's note on Kasab's execution [/font][/color][b]:[/b][color=#000000][font=arial] Pakistan claims that the note sent by the Indian government informing them that Kasab's execution had been received and acknowledged. The note on Kasab's execution was recd by the Director General South Asia from the Indian Dy High Commissioner yesterday.[/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=arial]Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said today that India had informed in advance Pakistan and the family members of Ajmal Kasab about the decision to hang the 2008 Mumbai attack terrorist, but Islamabad refused to acknowledge the letter, [/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=arial]"The External Affairs Ministry through our mission in Islamabad had informed the Pakistan government about Kasab's hanging. When they did not accept the letter, they were communicated through fax," Shinde told reporters here, hours after the hanging of the only captured terrorist in the attack.[/font][/color][/size]

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[size=4][color=#000000][font=arial]Only a handful of people in India knew about hanging[/font][/color][b]:[/b][color=#000000][font=arial] According to official sources, a senior jail official read out the death warrant to Kasab at his cell and also informed him that his clemency petition had been rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee. [/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=arial]After reading out his death warrant, Kasab, who was part of the 10-member Lashkar group that carried out the dastardly attack on November 26, 2008, was asked to sign it which he did, the sources said. [/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=arial]Later, he was taken by the Yerawada Jail police and the local police was kept out of the loop to maintain secrecy of the operation. Barring a couple of officers, the 200-strong contingent of ITBP, which has been guarding him since March 2009, had been kept out of loop about his transfer to Pune jail. [/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=arial]The sources said the ITBP jawans continued to guard the empty high-security cell, which had been housing 25-year-old Kasab.[/font][/color][/size]

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[size=4][color=#000000][font=arial]Kasab to India: Tell my mother I will be hanged[/font][/color][b]:[/b][color=#000000][font=arial] Ajmal Kasab had been informed about his hanging on November 12. He had said this should be communicated to his mother in Pakistan: Union Home Ministry sources.[/font][/color][/size]

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[size=4][color=#000000][font=arial]an announcer at the Chhtrapati Shivaji Terminus, the railway station here which was one of the targets of the attack, said, "I had never thought that I would get to hear this news like this."I am very happy that he has been hanged. All the people who died in the terror attack have been given tribute by hanging him," Zende, who had helped save many lives by making announcements over the public address system in the station about the strike, said.[/font][/color][/size]

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[size=4][color=#000000][font=arial]Kasab struggled as hangman placed hood on head [/font][/color][b]:[/b][color=#000000][font=arial] This morning, however, Kasab was nervous, Yerawada jail officials told [/font][/color][i]rediff.com's[/i][color=#000000][font=arial] [/font][/color][b]Vicky Nanjappa.[/b][color=#000000][font=arial] [/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=arial]Kasab said his prayers and then headed out to the gallows. He told the authorities that he had no last wish and did not wish to contact anyone in his home country. [/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=arial]A hood was then placed on his head and after a bit of struggle, it was all over quickly and smoothly. [/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=arial]Authorities are unwilling to divulge the name of the hangman who carried out the execution. There are contradictory views on the same. While some maintain that it was a constable in the jail who hanged Kasab after training for a couple of weeks, others insist it was a person by the name Rathan from Mumbai carried out the hanging.[/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=arial]Police officers say that they wish to be discreet about the hangman as this was a high profile execution and they did not want him to come into the limelight unnecessarily. [/font][/color][/size]

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[size=4][b]n Pak, Kasab's hanging not among top headlines:[/b][color=#000000][font=arial] Hours after the hanging of Ajmal Kasab in India, the news was no longer among the main headlines on the Pakistani channels, having been replaced by the events in Gaza and domestic developments. [/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=arial]Though state-run Radio Pakistan and private networks like Geo News led their morning bulletins with the development, by the afternoon it was no longer a major story. [/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=arial]The cautious handling by the news channels of the early morning execution of 25-year-old Kasab, the lone surviving Pakistani terrorist involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, reflected the muted response in the public sphere. [/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=arial]Most news outlets, including TV channels and websites of leading newspapers like Dawn and The Express Tribune, reported the event without offering any comment or analysis. [/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=arial]Kasab's Pakistani nationality has been a sensitive issue since the Mumbai attacks and reporting by the Pakistani media on most matters related to the assault, including the ongoing trial of seven Pakistanis, has mostly been perfunctory.[/font][/color][/size]