Driven by poverty, Kasab took to crime and jihad

What did we gain, by this state sponsored Murder? There are 100 different ways to punish the guilty.......So why a civilized country should have Capital Punishment?

It was his father's refusal to buy him new clothes on Eid that forced a miffed Ajmal Amir Kasab to quit home, take to crime and then embrace jihad, leading to his death in India.
Until then, the now 25−year−old Kasab −− who was hanged in Pune Wednesday for his role in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack −− led a simple life in an impoverished part of Pakistan's Punjab province.
He belonged to a poor family. His father was a food vendor while a brother was a labourer in Lahore.
It was in 2005 that Kasab decided to quit home after quarrelling with his father who could not provide him new clothes because of poverty.
The young man soon took to petty crime and graduated to armed robbery. A chance encounter with Jama'at−ud−Da'wah, the political wing of Lashkar−e−Taiba, changed his life for ever.
It did not take long for him to sign up for training with the bitterly anti−India Lashkar.

Kasab nervous but quiet before execution: Jail officer

People in Ahmedabad shouted slogans and held banners rejoicing over the execution of Ajmal Kasab on Wednesday.

Minutes before his execution in Pune's Yerwada prison today, Pakistani gunman Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab appeared to be nervous but was quiet and offered prayers, a jail official said.

'From his body language, we could make out that he was very nervous. However, he remained quiet before he was taken out from his cell for the hanging,' the official said.

Kasab had also offered prayers and asked if his family was informed in advance about the hanging to which jail authorities replied in the affirmative, the official said.

Nearly four years after the Mumbai terror attack, Kasab, the sole surviving Pakistani gunman, was hanged this morning at Yerawada central prison here in a top secret operation. 

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