'Sometime in 2007 my father took me to Zaki chacha and asked me to work with him.' Kasab, cutting straight to 2007 from 2005, skipped details of the two years in between.

'Who is Zaki chacha?'

'He is the big man of Lashkar.'

'Where was his office?'

'In my village. In Depalpur.'

Then Kasab, in an accusatory tone, added, 'Zaki chacha would say: Work with me. You will bring a good name to your family. You will get money. It is Allah's work.' Kasab implies he never believed in what Zaki told him -- either an honest admission or a clever ploy to blame it on Zaki, having been misled by him. 'My father said: You will live the way they live. You will eat well. Clothe well. Live a life of comfort. Your brothers and sister will get married,' says Kasab, implicating his father too.

'You went along with Zaki.'

'No, I worked at Lashkar's office in the village...'

'Was your father from Lashkar?'

'No. No. He just introduced me to those people. I told you they have an office in my village. Many people used to visit the office.'

'What would Zaki say?'

'Fala fala ho jaayega. Fala fala ho jayega. (This will happen, that will happen). After waging jihad we will earn a lot of respect, lot of money. Yeh sabaab ka kaam hai. (This is a virtuous task).'

'What else he would say?'

'Ajar milega. (You will be rewarded). Izzat milega. (And respect). You have to wage jihad.'

'What will you get after waging jehad?'

'Paisa, izzat.(Money, respect).'

'What else did Zaki say?'

'He told my father to leave me in the office. From then on I was in Allah's custody.'

'When did you join this?'

'I don't remember… possibly a year and a half back.'

'And when did you receive training?'

'It was snowing.'

'So it was around January or December?'

'Possibly... (pause). When Benazir Bhutto was killed. Then we were receiving the training.'

'Were these people involved in killing Benazir?'

'I don't know. They do many things. In Afghanistan... I don't know.'

'How many people were there in training?'

'Twenty-four to twenty-five people were there.'

'Where was this training organised?'

'In Mansera. In the hills. Near a village called Battan. They trained us in pistols, Kalashan, magazines that are attached with it, in grenades.' Kasab calls Kalashnikovs 'kalashan'.

'Do you know the names of others who were with you at the training?'

'No, I know just one boy. He was also from Lahore. We became friends. We were not allowed to know about each other. They were very strict.'

'Did Zaki come to train you?'

'No, he would come only occasionally… You see, he is a very busy man. He would say we will go to heaven. I said, bhago yaar, main yeh nahi kar sakta. (Let's run... I can't do this).'

'Where were you all supposed to go after today's incident?'

'Nowhere. We were meant to die.'

'How many people did you kill at the CST station?'

'Don't know. I finished two-and-a-half magazines. Don't know how many I killed. Just kept firing. Zaki had told us to keep killing till we were alive.'

'For how long were you supposed to carry this out?'

'As long as we could. Until we died.'

'How many of you have come to Mumbai?'

'We were blindfolded. We came in a ship. And then we got into a launch. You know where the launch from India and Pakistan meet, there we got into an Indian launch,' Kasab tries to evade the question on the total number of his accomplices.

'Who provided you support here in Mumbai?'

'I don't know. There are some mujahids who come to India and settle down. We don't know about them. We were sent to die.'