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From Mark Wandrey
Source: India Abroad / Feb 19, 1993
EXTRADITION SNAG IN CIA KILLINGS By Ela Dutt
WASHINGTON - A senior Pakistani official said last week that it may
not be easy to extradite Mir Aimal Kansi, suspected of assassinating
two CIA officials, despite the current treaty between Washington and
Islamabad.
The Pakistan press attache, Malik Zahoor Ahmed, told India Abroad
that if Kansi, who is accused by police here [in the US] of having
gunned down two CIA officials and injured three others, fled to the
tribal areas in Pakistan, it would require collaboration with the
local authorities to get him.
This is because the tribal areas in the North West Frontier
Province, bordering Iran and Afghanistan, have special autonomy and
the extradition treaty would not apply to them.
The 28-year-old Kansi, or someone with the same name, is said to
have flown out of Nathional Airport in Washington [DC] on Jan. 26, the
day after the killings, and it is surmised that the same person took a
flight to Islamabad from New York. Since then, Kansi has been sighted
by neighbors of his family in Quetta but is yet to be apprehended.
Ahmed said that an extradition treaty exists between the United
States and Pakistan that was signed between Britis colonial
authorities and Washington back in 1930. The same treaty is in force
between India and the U.S.
The State Department confirmed that the treaty existed and a
spokesman, Richard Boucher, said, "The Government of Pakistan is
cooperating fully with us."
FBI Seeks to Go
According to diplomatic sources, officials of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) involved in the inquiry into the killings met
Pakistan Embassy officials here to clear the way to travel to
Islamabad. They were expected to leave this week and the visa offices
of the embassy were to remain open to process any papers over the
weekend, one source said.
"If he [Kansi] has hidden in the tribal areas, we will have to take
the help of the tribal chief and the political agent," Ahmed told
India Abroad.
Meanwhile, the Immigration and Naturalization Service [INS] was on
the defensive on the issue of how Kansi had been able to slip through
INS hands at his port of entry in New York some two years ago. They
have also not divulged the reasons why he sought political asylum.
Failure at Kennedy
An INS spokesman, Duke Austin, conceded that the immigration system
in place at Kennedy International Airport failed when it allowed Kansi
into the country without questioning him on March 3, 1991.
"I don't think the system is absolutely hundred percent proof,"
Austin said. "He did slip by."