Zardari distances Pakistan from Mumbai attack

Listen Listen to Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari (7 mins 16 secs)

Ajmal Qasab is the only living suspect in the Mumbai attacks

The evidence that one of the Mumbai attackers came from Pakistan seems overwhelming.

One of Pakistan's leading newspapers, Dawn, has even run an interview with a man in the Pakistani village of Faridkot who accepted that the young man captured by Indian police was his son.

"I was in denial for the first couple of days, saying to myself it could not have been my son," the newspaper quoted him as saying "Now I have accepted it. This is the truth. I have seen the picture in the newspaper. This is my son Ajmal."

Yet Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari is still insisting that there is no proven link to Pakistan.

In an exclusive BBC interview, Allan Little asked him whether he accepted that there was irrefutable evidence that the Mumbai attacks were planned and executed from Pakistan.

First broadcast 17 December 2008