Lone gunman to be hanged

MUMBAI - MOHAMMED Ajmal Amir Kasab is a school drop-out labelled the 'Butcher of Mumbai' by one tabloid newspaper who now faces a wait on death row in India for his role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

The 22-year-old Pakistani national was one of two heavily armed gunmen who opened fire and threw hand grenades at the city's main railway station on November 26, 2008, killing 52 people and wounding more than 100.

He was born in the dusty village of Faridkot in a remote and impoverished region of Punjab in Pakistan's farming belt, home to 10,000 people, most of them farmers and labourers and few of them literate. His father, Mohammed Amir Iman, ran a food stall in the village and his mother was called Noor.

Kasab dropped out of school in 2000 and worked as a labourer in the eastern city of Lahore until 2005, according to his initial confession to police, which was widely published in India.

Kasab reportedly said he joined the Islamist group blamed for the attacks to get weapons training after deciding to embark on a life of crime but there have also been claims that his father duped him into doing it for money.

He first pleaded not guilty last April but in July made a shock confession, admitting being one of the 10 gunmen trained, equipped and financed by the banned, Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). -- AFP

Comments: I feel that Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab should not have decided to start to decide that he was to embark on a life of crime as by that he already knew that through this life that he will not have a good end. There were claims that his father duped him into doing it for money but even though if it was for money, crime should not have been done. Mohammed is a perfectly normal man who could have worked for money instead of leading a life of crime to get money through underhand means instead. 52 men were killed and over a 100 were innocently injured just for Mohammed and that was a selfish thought. Mohammed should lead a normal life and earn money like every other citizen does.

Done by: Gabriel Han

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