MUMBAI, Dec. 2 --of the 10 radical Islamic gunmen carried out attacks in Mumbai India last week, There was only one, 24 year old Azam Amir Kasab to be captured by the police. Shown in this picture with an assault rifle in hand as he tiptoed through a train station, he has become the face of the three-day assault that brought the city to its knees and left at least 174 people dead. Since then, interrogations of Kasab have become the centerpiece of India's probe into one of the worst terrorist strikes in the country in years.
Like the C.I.A of old Indian police interrogators are preparing to administer a "truth serum" on the sole Islamic militant captured during last week's terror attacks on Mumbai to settle once and for all the questions of who and why?
The mystery of the man dubbed "the baby-faced gunman" has weighed heavily on India's relations with Pakistan as the nuclear-armed neighbours dispute each other's accounts of his origin.
Police interrogators in Mumbai told The Times that they have "verified" that Azam Amir Kasab, who was captured after a shoot-out in a Mumbai railway station on Wednesday night, is from Faridkot, a small village in Pakistan's impoverished south Punjab region. They say that the nine dead gunmen are also Pakistani.
Disputing that account, President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan told CNN last night: "We have not been given any tangible proof to say that he is definitely a Pakistani. I very much doubt it … that he is a Pakistani."
He added: "The gunmen plus the planners, whoever they are stateless actors who have been holding hostage the whole world."
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