
Islamabad: India is likely to thin out troops from wartime positions on the border with Pakistan, where they were deployed after the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, according to a media report on Monday. The two countries reached an understanding on withdrawing troops during President Asif Ali Zardari's visit to New Delhi on April 8, 'The Express Tribune' quoted unnamed military and diplomatic officials as saying. The withdrawal of troops to...

01:58 PM, May 14, 2012

New Delhi: The Supreme Court will continue hearing Ajmal Kasab's plea against his death sentence in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case. Kasab had pleaded with the Supreme Court to commute his death sentence to life imprisonment. The lone surviving gunman of the 26/11 attacks has been sentenced with death penalty. The sentencing was awarded by a trial court in May 2010 and upheld by the Bombay High Court in February...

09:50 AM, Mar 28, 2012

New Delhi: The Supreme Court will continue to hear Ajmal Kasab's plea against his death sentence in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case. The apex court had last week heard recorded tapes of conversations shared between Kasab and his handlers in Pakistan during the 2008 attacks. Kasab had pleaded with the Supreme Court to commute his death sentence to life imprisonment. Senior advocate Raju Ramachandran, who has been appointed as amicus...

08:52 AM, Feb 28, 2012

Mumbai: A Pakistani judicial commission will arrive in Mumbai on February 3 to record the statements of key persons involved in Mumbai attack probe. Official sources said that officers of the crime branch have been asked to provide assistance to the Pakistani commission during their visit here for which the Bombay High Court had recently given a go-ahead. The commission will be recording the statement of Ramesh Mahale, the 26/11...

06:31 PM, Jan 29, 2012

New Delhi: The NIA on Saturday told a Delhi court that it did not recognise the plea bargain reached between David Coleman Headley and the US administration and that India should start the process to extradite the American Lashkar operative as soon as possible. "We don't recognise David Headley's plea bargain with the US... India should start the process to extradite the American Laskhkar operative." Last month, the NIA had...

12:00 PM, Jan 07, 2012

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday filed a chargesheet against Lashkar-e-Toiba operative David Coleman Headley and eight others including two ISI officials, in the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attack case. The chargesheet has been filed in a special NIA court in Delhi. The Patiala House court is likely to pronounce its order on whether to accept the chargesheet (cognizance) on January 7, 2012. The Government on...

01:20 PM, Dec 24, 2011

Washington: American nationals and relatives of those killed in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks want the confessed LeT operative David Headley to take the stand in a New York law suit they have filed against Pakistan's ISI for plotting the bloody mayhem. The victims have also stuck claim of $10 million per death and $3 million per injury from the Pakistan's spy agency on the lines of compensation received by...

03:04 PM, Aug 23, 2011

Mumbai: MT Pavit, a small ship mysteriously grounded at Mumbai's Versova Beach, has literally turned into a giant jigsaw puzzle for India's coastal security agencies. Having not even a blip on the security radar, while it was adrift towards Mumbai for a month, has left alarm bells ringing. The ship owner claimed Pavit had sunk off the Oman coast on June 29 due to water ingress in its engine room....

08:31 PM, Aug 04, 2011

Thimphu: India has pressed Pakistan for the voice samples of the seven accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and sought speedy trial of the case in that country to bring to justice the perpetrators of the strikes. Home Minister P Chidambaram made the request to his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik when they met in Thimphuon Saturday night on the sidelines of the SAARC Interior Ministers meeting. "The Indian Home...

12:00 PM, Jul 24, 2011

New Delhi: India has decided to propose to Pakistan to increase the number of trading days from two to four for cross-LoC commerce besides multiple entry permits for 6 months for people of Jammu and Kashmir as part of Confidence Building Measures. The decision to make the proposal was taken at a high-level meeting convened by the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi recently which was attended by officials...

03:30 PM, Jul 10, 2011

New Delhi: Against the backdrop of the ongoing talks with Pakistan, BJP on Thursday said India appears to have diluted its earlier demand that the neighbouring country take 'speedy and credible' action against 26/11 culprits and instead reconciled to 'satisfactory closure' of the case. Speaking at a party rally, senior BJP leader L K Advani alleged that Pakistan has not taken 'a single credible step' to show that it is...

10:33 PM, Jun 23, 2011

Chicago: Tahawwur Rana, who was cleared of involvement in Mumbai attacks but convicted in the Denmark terror plot, would have won the case had there been different trials for charges against him, the Pakistani-Canadian's lawyer has claimed. "It's like someone tells you that you have cancer. You have survived the cancer but have lost a leg. The good news is that you have survived the cancer," Charlie Swift, Rana's attorney,...

01:00 PM, Jun 19, 2011

Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday said that it has put the trial of seven Mumbai attacks suspects on the fast track and any delay in proceedings is due to India's failure to decide on a request to allow a judicial commission to interview key officials there. In a response to Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram's remarks on Wednesday that confidence between the two countries cannot be restored till Pakistan takes action...

11:41 AM, Jun 09, 2011

The BJP is closely following the developments in the 26/11 trial and says the government must demand access to all those who were responsible for the 26/11 outrage in Mumbai. ...

07:01 PM, May 29, 2011

Chicago: Dissatisfied with the military and espionage training received by Mumbai attacks accused David Headley from the Lashkar-e-Taiba, Pakistan's spy agency ISI provided him a special course in Lahore for carrying out surveillance ahead of the 26/11 carnage. "ISI did provide me (espionage) training," Headley told a Chicago court as he was grilled by the defence attorney Charles D Swift on the third day of the trial on Wednesday of...

11:08 AM, May 26, 2011