Even as India and Pakistan are flexing muscles through a military stand-off on the border and are busy pushing Most Wanted lists, Pakistan has allegedly come up with an extradition list which features none less than Indian Home Minister L K Advani.
Advani is wanted by Pakistan in a case regarding a bid to assassinate Pakistan's founding father Mohammad Ali Jinnah in 1947, The News reported.
The daily quoted sources as saying that Advani has been a proclaimed offender eversince the case was registered. The case, which was registered on September 10, 1947, is filed against 18 accused.
The accused were charged of criminal conspiracy to assassinate Jinnah, the then governor-general, Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, Khawaja Nazimuddin and other Pakistani leaders.
While the police arrested six of them, the remaining 12, including Advani and some VHP leaders, absconded.
The case against them was placed
on dormant file till they got arrested. As per an agreement between India
and Pakistan, the six convicts were extradited to India on September 19,
1948.