Pak yet to receive officially Kasab's request for lawyer: FO

Islamabad, Apr 16:Pakistan today said it has not received anything officially from India regarding the request for a Pakistani lawyer by Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone terrorist captured alive during the Mumbai attacks.

"We will see when it comes. We would not like to jump the guns," Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit told reporters at the weekly briefing here, replying to a question on Kasab's request for a Pakistani lawyer to represent him in trial in India.

Basit said nothing has been received officially or formally from India in this regard.

Kasab had told a special court in Mumbai yesterday that he wanted a Pakistani lawyer to represent him after the judge revoked his order appointing Anjali Waghmare as his counsel.

Replying to another question on the general elections in India and the party Pakistan would prefer to see in power in the neighbouring country, Basit said "we are ready to work with any government that comes to power once the elections are over." "We are looking forward to working with any government. It is for the people of India to decide (whom they vote for)," he said. PTI