Nawaz Sharif, tipped to be the next Prime Minister of Pakistan after the May 11 elections, has assured India of a thorough probe into the role of the ISI in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. Speaking to CNN-IBN's Karan Thapar in a Devil's Advocate special from Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif also said the findings of the Kargil probe will be shared with India if he came to power. Following is an excerpt from the interview:
Karan Thapar: David Headley who gave evidence in America, in an American court to American investigators has given names like Major Sami Ali, Major Iqbal, who he says are ISI officers. He's talked about how the ISI gave $25,000 to Headley, how the ISI provided naval divers, how the ISI gave financial, military and naval support. If you become the Prime Minister, will you ensure that this sort of thing stops, that the ISI is no longer responsible for carrying out terror and that those people who have done it are also brought to book?
Nawaz Sharif: If he is given such a statement, I think we need to first verify the facts of the statement. I have read those statements, they appeared in the press some time ago and lately there has been nothing on that issue. But some months ago I read that. But how far these statements are true will have to be seen.
Karan Thapar: So you will carry out a credible investigation? ...
03:46 PM, May 06, 2013
Islamabad: The Pakistani prosecutor handling the 26/11 Mumbai attack case and the Benazir Bhutto assassination case has reportedly been shot dead in Islamabad. Chaudhry Zulfiqar, the prosecutor of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), was shot dead by unidentified armed men in Islamabad on Friday morning, Pakistan's Geo News reported. Reports say unidentified armed motorcycle-borne men opened fire on Chaudhry Zulfiqar. He was critically injured and was being rushed to the hospital...
09:22 AM, May 03, 2013
The United States has said it will continue to bring to justice the other six people named in Mumbai terror attacks case, including Lashkar-e-Toiba leaders. "They are fugitives. If we can ever get our hands on them, we will try to arrest them, or have them arrested depending on what country they are found in and extradite to the United States and prosecute them here in the US," Acting US...
06:58 AM, Jan 25, 2013
Mumbai: A slight figure in cargo pants and sneakers and a blue sweatshirt, gun-wielding Ajmal Kasab was the face of the horrific Mumbai terror attack and the key to unravel the conspiracy hatched in Pakistan. The images of Kasab ambling cockily--a backpack on his shoulders and an AK-47 dangling carelessly--captured on camera at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus(CST) on the deadly night of November 26, 2008 formed hard evidence of his...
12:40 PM, Nov 21, 2012
New Delhi: After hearing the news of the execution of Mumbai terror attack accused Ajmal Kasab in Pune's Yerwada jail, sources in the Pakistan Presidents office on Wednesday said a repercussion could not be ruled out in the case of Sarabjit Singh, a death row prisoner in Pakistan. We respect judicial process in India. We hope that everything is done under proper scrutiny. Our understanding says Indian President has jumped...
10:05 AM, Nov 21, 2012
New Delhi: Ahead of the fourth anniversary of the Mumbai attacks, the government has linked the 26/11 probe with a prime ministerial visit to Pakistan. Highly-placed sources in the Ministry of External Affairs have virtually ruled out Manmohan Singh's visit to Pakistan pointing out that Pakistan was yet to fulfill India's expectations on 26/11. This follows Pakistan Prime Minister Asif Ali Zardari extending an invitation to the PM during a...
10:40 AM, Nov 16, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani officials have revealed the details of training given to the 26/11 Mumbai attackers. They have admitted in an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi that the key accused including Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi got training at Lashkar-e-Toiba camps in Karachi, Mansehra and Muzaffarabad. The Pakistani investigators have told court that the information has come from informers. Lakhvi's counsel has dismissed their testimony as fabricated. Lawyers defending the seven accused Pakistanis questioned...
09:35 AM, Nov 12, 2012
Mumbai: City police would soon file a supplementary chargesheet in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case, describing LeT operative Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal as one of the main conspirators who was briefed about the terror operation four months in advance by his bosses in Pakistan. In the chargesheet, which is expected to be filed in a fortnight, the investigators would mention that Jundal, who had completed first year Masters...
07:15 AM, Oct 08, 2012
Islamabad: India on Saturday made it clear to Pakistan that the issue of the 2008 Mumbai attacks was still "very much on the table" and the matter cannot be "glossed over". It asserted that Pakistan must take action to bring to justice the perpetrators of the brazen assault on India's financial hub that left 166 dead. "Mumbai is very much on the table and they (Pakistan) will have to take...
09:57 PM, Sep 08, 2012
The alleged mastermind of the 26/11 terror attacks Hafiz Saeed has hit out at India once again saying that dialogue should be suspended till the Kashmir issue is resolved. ...
09:17 AM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: India on Friday said it will take a decision on the visit of another Pakistan judicial commission here to cross examine witnesses related to the trial of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks after completion of internal consultations. "The Home Ministry is consulting judicial authorities in this and we will be in a position to reply once we get a response from the judicial authorities," External Affairs Ministry spokesman Syed...
09:03 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on the sidelines of the NAM Summit in Tehran on Thursday evening. ...
09:19 AM, Aug 31, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that he respects the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the death sentence of 26/11 Mumbai attacks convict Ajmal Kasab. Reacting to the court verdict, Rehman Malik said, "This is the decision by a court and therefore, I am nobody to say why they have done it. The court must have had some reason to do it. Hence, I think, whether it is...
12:12 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Mumbai: Even as Ajmal Kasab got a death sentence in the 26/11 attacks case, the Mumbai police are well underway in their investigations against one of his alleged handlers Abu Jundal. He was confronted with Kasab recently for a joint interrogation. "This is not a token judgement. This is a milestone and we are in the process of prosecuting one of the masterminds Abu Jundal. We have collected strong evidence...
09:01 AM, Aug 30, 2012
Tehran: The Ajmal Kasab judgement in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks is likely to have an impact on the meeting between Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as they meet on the sidelines of the NAM summit in Tehran. India will push for a speedy trial of the 26/11 masterminds in Pakistan. Enough water has flown down the Indus since Manmohan Singh and Asif Zardari last...
08:43 AM, Aug 30, 2012
Eknath Ombale, the brother of Tukaram Ombale who died fighting terrorists during the 26/11 terror attacks, said that if Afzal Guru had been hanged 10 years ago, maybe 26/11 and 13/7 wouldn't have happened. ...
02:04 PM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: Reacting to the apex court verdict which upheld the death sentence awarded to Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case, senior advocate Raju Ramachandran, who defended him in the apex court as amicus curiae, said he "bows down" to the ruling. "I bow to the verdict of the court. As amicus curiae, I was given an opportunity to advance every convincing arguments, I could,"...
02:01 PM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: Welcoming the Supreme Court's verdict upholding the death sentence awarded to 26/11 convict Ajmal Kasab, the father of NSG commando Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, who died fighting the terrorists involved in the gruesome attack, said that he was satisfied with the judgement. "I welcome the judgement. I request the President to expedite the punishment and dispose off his mercy petition." Unnikrishnan was killed fighting terrorists in Mumbai's Taj Mahal...
11:10 AM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: Upholding the death sentence awarded to 26/11 convict Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist involved in the gruesome attack on India's financial capital Mumbai, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said that it was left with no other option. "Kasab waged war against India. It is the primary and the foremost offence committed by Kasab," the SC ruling said. The apex court dismissed Kasab's plea that he was not...
11:03 AM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has upheld death penalty for 26/11 Mumbai attacks convict Ajmal Kasab. Mohammed Ajmal Kasab is the lone Pakistani terrorist captured alive in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. He was granted death penalty for his role in the attacks that left 166 people dead. Following is the sequence of events in Kasab's trial since the 26/11 Mumbai attacks: 2008 November 26: Ajmal Kasab and nine other terrorists...
08:19 AM, Aug 29, 2012
