Pak rules out handing over of Rauf to UK until domestic case decided

Pakistan Interior Ministry has ruled out handing over Rashid Rauf, the main accused of London terror plot, to the UK until his ongoing case in Pakistan was decided.

This was conveyed to the eight-member UK delegation led by William Nye, director of Counter Terrorism and Intelligence at the British Home Office, during a meeting with Pakistan's top security officials held here to finalise the singing of a treaty to form a joint working group (JWG).

"Rashid Rauf is also an accused in a case being tried in Pakistan, and according to the law of the country, he cannot be handed over to the UK unless the case is decided," the Dawn quoted a senior official of the ministry as saying.

Rashid Rauf, a Pakistani-born UK national and the main accused in an alleged plot of blowing up trans-Atlantic airlines, was arrested in August 2006. On December 13, an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi had dropped against Rashid an allegation that he was carrying a liquid which was used in the manufacture of explosives and terrorist attacks, and now his case is being tried in the Lahore High Court and a local court in Rawalpindi.

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