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Mumbai gunman "has links to Pakistan": minister

ISLAMABAD
Wed Jan 7, 2009 10:02am EST

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The lone surviving gunman captured after November's militant attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai has links to Pakistan, a Pakistani government minister said Wednesday, after media reported he was Pakistani.

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"He has links to Pakistan but the investigation is ongoing," Information Minister Sherry Rehman told Reuters.

Earlier, Dawn News television, citing unidentified officials, said a Pakistani investigation had determined the gunman, Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, who is in Indian custody, was Pakistani.

(Reporting by Augustine Anthony; Editing by Robert Birsel and Jerry Norton)
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