MUMBAI: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said the possible goof-up in sending identical DNA reports of terrorists involved in 26/11 attack in Mumbai was a "non-issue" and a "minor clerical error". "Pakistan no longer denies that Mohammed Ajmal Kasab and Abu Ismail (the two terrorists involved in the Mumbai terror strikes) were its nationals," Mr. Chidambaram said alluding that the goof-up may have occurred because the same photocopies of the report might have been sent. He also ruled out setting up a commission of inquiry into the 26/11 attack. "This is a minor clerical error which can be corrected. Kasab is still alive. His DNA can be taken again while a dead man's DNA is required only to know who the father or mother is," he said. While Kasab is the lone gunman captured alive in the 26/11 attack, Ismail was among the nine terrorists killed in the operation by commandos. The media reports had said that in a dossier sent to Pakistan the DNA reports of arrested terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Kasab and the slain terrorist Abu Ismail were identical. DNA reports of both Ismail and Kasab are with the Mumbai police, Mr. Chidambaram said, adding that there was no need for commission of enquiry for 26/11 attack.
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