US federal prosecutors are seeking the maximum 30-year sentence for Pakistan-born Tahawwur Rana for providing support to Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba that staged the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Although Chicago businessman Rana, a boyhood friend of David Coleman Headley, was acquitted of supporting the Mumbai attacks, he was convicted of supporting LeT and its aborted plot to attack Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten for publishing cartoons of Prophet Muhammad. ...
11:08 AM, Jan 15, 2013
Pakistan's response to India's "wishlist" with regard to those behind the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks is "critical" to "substantive movement" in the bilateral dialogue, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said on Sunday. ...
08:25 PM, Jan 06, 2013
Mumbai: Nearly four years after the Mumbai terror attack, Ajmal Kasab, the sole surviving Pakistani gunman, was hanged to death at the Yerawada central prison on Wednesday morning. Soon after, reactions from victims' families started pouring in welcoming the execution. Tukaram Omble was the biggest hero of 26/11. The Mumbai police assistant sub-inspector was responsible for the capture of LeT terrorist Ajmal Kasab alive. His brother Eknath Omble welcomed the...
11:10 AM, Nov 21, 2012
New Delhi: The 2008 Mumbai terror attack case is scheduled to come up for hearing in an anti-terrorism court in Islamabad on Tuesday. The court had previously adjourned proceedings after defence lawyers of 7 suspects failed to appear before the judge. The Federal Investigation then, filed an application that requested the judge to nominate an official to take records of the court's proceedings to India along with a Pakistani judicial...
08:52 AM, Jan 17, 2012
Islamabad: A Pakistani court has approved a plea to send the records of the trial of seven suspects charged with involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks along with a judicial commission that is set to visit India to interview key officials. Anti-terrorism court judge Shahid Rafique accepted the Federal Investigation Agency's application to send the records of the trial and other court documents to the Indian judge who will work...
01:45 PM, Jan 06, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan has formally conveyed to India that its nine-member judicial commission will visit India next month to interview key persons linked to the probe into the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. New Delhi was informed on Tuesday that the Pakistan judicial commission will visit India in January 2012 and the mutually convenient dates of the tour will be finalised soon, official sources said. The commission will take the statements...
05:48 PM, Dec 29, 2011
Lahore/Islamabad: A Pakistani court on Thursday admitted a petition by prosecutors to declare Ajmal Kasab and Fahim Ansari as "proclaimed offenders" or fugitives in connection with the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Justice Saghir Ahmed Qadri of the Rawalpindi-based bench of the Lahore High Court directed the registrar's office to fix the petition for regular hearing by a division bench within two weeks. In a twist in the trial of seven...
04:20 PM, Jan 13, 2011
