Islamabad: The trial of LeT's Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six others charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks is "stuck. Pakistan has declared that the formation of a commission to record the testimony of two key Indian witnesses is necessary to take things forward.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik -- who had a meeting with Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal here this morning --contended that the trial of the Pakistani suspects has run into problems over the issue of Indian witnesses testifying via video-conferencing as this is not allowed under Pakistani laws.

The next hearing in the trial of LeT's operations commander Lakhvi and six other Pakistani suspects is scheduled for September 18.Though India proposed that the testimony of the two witnesses -- the magistrate who recorded the confessional statement of lone surviving Mumbai attacker Ajmal Kasab and the police officer who investigated the incident -- should be recorded via video conferencing, Malik said this was not permitted by Pakistani laws.

He said he had discussed the formation of the commission comprising "relevant officials" -- which would visit India to record the statements of a magistrate and a police officer --during a recent telephonic conversation with his Indian counterpart P Chidambaram.