Mumbai: The Mumbai Crime Branch on Monday sought permission from the Maharashtra government to question 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab with regard to the key handler of the attacks, Abu Jundal and his confessions. Arrested in May this year, Jundal has been revealing various details of the 2008 Mumbai attacks plot, saying that Kasab was one of their best men. Meanwhile, sources have said that Indian security agencies were able to...
12:44 PM, Aug 06, 2012
New Delhi: Congratulating his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee on his assuming the office, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday underlined Islamabad's desire to forge cooperative relations with India to promote peace and stability in the region. "On behalf of the people of Pakistan and my own behalf, I wish to convey to you our heartfelt felicitations on your assumption of the office of the President of the Republic of...
01:59 AM, Jul 26, 2012
DawnNews Reporter Mateen Haidar says LeT and JuD Chief Hafiz Saeed is highly protected in Pakistan and it will be very difficult to find him. ...
09:34 AM, Apr 03, 2012
Mumbai: The visiting Pakistani judicial commission on 26/11 Mumbai attacks recorded the statements of three witnesses on Saturday. A Mumbai court judge will now send the report to the Pakistani court, where the trial has been conducted against the seven 26/11 accused. This came a day after a heated argument. The lawyer of key accused Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi demanded the right to cross examine the four Indian witnesses, which the court...
03:25 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Mumbai: The visiting Pakistani judicial commission on 26/11 will record the statements of three witnesses on Saturday, including the Chief Investigating Officer. This came a day after a heated argument. The lawyer of key accused Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi demanded the right to cross examine the four Indian witnesses, which the court rejected. The demand is a clear change in stand and so questions are being asked on whether this is a...
07:27 AM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: A National Investigation Agency (NIA) court has accepted a chargesheet against Lashkar-e-Toiba agent David Coleman Headley in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case. The NIA in its chargesheet had charged Headley and 8 others including Tawahur Hussain Rana, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and Hafiz Saeed with criminal conspiracy of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. This clears the deck for the NIA to move for the extradition of all the accused. Headley...
03:18 PM, Feb 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Maharashtra government on Wednesday opposed 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks accused Ajmal Kasab's plea for leniency in the Supreme Court. Placing arguments in the court, the Maharashtra government said, "Kasab's rights have not been violated." The Maharashtra government also said that death was a permissible means of punishment. It also claimed that his latest request was a conspiracy. "Kasab has been dealt with as fairly as possible. He...
12:52 PM, Feb 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is set to hear Ajmal Kasab's plea to commute his death sentence in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case. The 24-year-old was the only Pakistani terrorist to be caught alive and convicted on four counts. He has appealed for leniency citing his age. The Maharashtra government will oppose his plea. Kasab, on Tuesday pleaded with the Supreme Court to commute his death sentence to life...
07:39 AM, Feb 15, 2012
Paying tribute to the victims of terror attacks across planet earth, celebrated music composer Aadesh vastava launched a music album titled 'Sound Of Peace'. ...
05:14 PM, Nov 28, 2011
Washington: Warning that the case charging ISI and its chief with being involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks could have "disastrous consequences" for US-Pak ties, an American attorney representing them in a New York court has sought its dismissal. "Asserting jurisdiction over Pakistan and it officials will further stress the relationship between Pakistan and the US, with potential disastrous consequences for the relationship and the region," attorney Kevin J Wash...
02:25 PM, Aug 24, 2011
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of the 26/11 trial in the US, Home Minister P Chidambaram and his US counterpart Janet Napolitano met the press after their meeting to present the main points that were discussed. She refused to comment on the involvement of the ISI in the 26/11 attacks. Janet Nepolitano's visit marks the state of official co-ordination between New Delhi and Washington on internal security. Significantly Napolitano stated...
12:50 PM, May 27, 2011
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of 26/11 trial in the US, Home Minister P Chidambaram and the Chief of US Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will meet in the capital on Friday. Just ahead of launching the first structured homeland security dialogue in New Delhi, Napolitano paid a visit to the police memorial in Mumbai for those died during 26/11 - a sign of just how important the attacks are to...
08:52 AM, May 27, 2011
Chicago: David Headley on Thursday concluded his testimony in the 26/11 trail by saying he had attended over 50 training sessions with the ISI. He also revealed that his handler ISI's Major Iqbal used a cell phone with a US number to stay in touch with him from Pakistan, while he was in Mumbai. On the last day of his testimony, David Coleman Headley also revealed that a Pakistani Navy...
07:34 AM, May 27, 2011
Chicago: US federal prosecutors have presented to a Chicago court additional evidences linking strong connection between David Headley, the Mumbai terror accused, and officials of the Pakistan's spy agency ISI. Through records of several emails exhibited in the court federal prosecutors established beyond doubt that Headley was in constant contact with ISI officials, in particular Major Iqbal, and his handlers in Pakistan. In one of the emails to Major Iqbal,...
11:34 AM, May 25, 2011
Chicago: US attorney Charles Swift, who is representing Canadian-Pakistan Tahawwur Hussain Rana in his trial here for his alleged role in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, says his client has been betrayed by his friend David Headley. A former US Navy attorney in the rank of a lieutenant commander, Seattle-based Swift has made a career out of defending high-profile accused terrorists, including Osama bin Laden's driver Salim Ahmed Hamdan and...
11:04 AM, May 23, 2011
The US passed all intelligence details they had on Headley's activities before Mumbai terror attacks insists the US Ambassador to CNN-IBN. ...
08:59 PM, Oct 20, 2010
Mumbai: Salman Khan kicked off a storm on Sunday after he said in an interview to a Pakistani news channel that the Mumbai terror attacks got coverage because most of the victims in those attacks were rich. The Bollywood superstar also went on to say that the Pakistan government was not involved in those attacks. "Too much hype has been created around the 26/11 attacks because elite people were targetted....
05:49 PM, Sep 12, 2010
The revelation about ISI role in the Mumbai attacks had come from the interrogation of Pakistani-American LeT operative Headley. ...
02:46 PM, Jul 27, 2010
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi says he do not want to visit India for a leisure trip. ...
10:04 AM, Jul 18, 2010
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India-Pakistan talks have much in common with a case of ripe mangoes: must be handled with care, are easily bruised, and decay if left too ...
08:21 AM, Jul 18, 2010
