Pak navy denies Kasab used sea route

Pakistan was back in denial mode today with Navy Chief Admiral Noman Bashir claiming there was no proof that Ajmal Kasab took the sea route from this country to carry out the Mumbai terror attacks.
"We have seen no evidence that confirms he went from Pakistan to Mumbai," Bashir told reporters here.
The Navy Chief's contention contradicts Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik's admission two weeks back that the Mumbai attacks were "partly" plotted on Pakistan soil and launched from its shores for which it has arrested six persons.
"The evidence that I have doesn't show" that the terrorists went from this country. "This is India's claim from day one. Even before the Mumbai incidents had ended, India was saying that the terrorists have used sea route," he said.
The Navy chief wondered how the terrorists could have escaped the tight vigil of the Pakistan navy guarding its coastline.
"If they have evaded us and the Indian navy which is ten times bigger than our navy and cheated them along with the Coastguard, which is 12 times bigger than our Coastguards, what shall I say," he said.
Bashir said they were lot of questions that still needed to be answered about the Mumbai terror attacks.
"I don't want to make anymore comments on this until I have seen some evidence and if Kasab and others reached Mumbai via our waters, the question is what was the Indian Naval and Maritime forces doing?
If this was true, it showed the failure of the Indian Navy and the Coastguards, he said.
He said Pakistan was committed to stopping terrorism emanating fro the sea route. "Whatever lapses were there, we have tried to mend them. But to say that it has been 100 per cent perfect, is not possible., neither for Pakistan nor for India.