
Islamabad: The trial of LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other Pakistani suspects charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks was on Saturday adjourned till May 19, even as defence lawyers filed an application raising objections to the report of a judicial panel that recently visited India. The defence lawyers had filed an application with their preliminary objections to the commission's report at the last hearing on April 28....

06:27 PM, May 05, 2012

Islamabad: The visit of the Pakistani judicial commission on Mumbai attacks to India has been delayed further with a court, conducting the trial of seven suspects in the case, on Tuesday adjourning the matter till February 11. Anti-terrorism court Judge Shahid Rafique adjourned the proceedings after defence lawyers sought a delay in the commission's proposed visit to India, sources said. Khwaja Haris Ahmed, counsel for Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi,...

04:58 PM, Feb 07, 2012

New Delhi: The 2008 Mumbai terror attack convict and Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab Tuesday told the Supreme Court that he was denied fair trial as he was not provided legal assistance during the initial stages as mandated under the Indian constitution. Once an accused, including a foreigner, is tried for an offence in India the provisions related to arrest as mentioned in the constitution get applied in his case. "Denial...

11:58 PM, Jan 31, 2012

New Delhi: The 2008 Mumbai terror attack convict and Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab Tuesday told the Supreme Court that he was denied fair trial as he was not provided legal assistance during the initial stages as mandated under the Indian constitution. Once an accused, including a foreigner, is tried for an offence in India the provisions related to arrest as mentioned in the constitution get applied in his case. "Denial ...

11:58 PM, Jan 31, 2012

Islamabad: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court conducting the 2008 Mumbai attack trial on Tuesday adjourned proceedings for a fortnight after the defence lawyers of seven suspects in the carnage failed to appear before the judge. The main defence lawyer, Khwaja Sultan, was unwell and the other lawyers did not appear before anti-terrorism court judge Shahid Rafique during proceedings held at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, sources said. The Federal Investigation filed an...

06:59 PM, Jan 03, 2012

New Delhi: Four prosecution witnesses are expected to record their statements on Saturday in response to the court's summons in the ongoing 26/11 trial in Pakistan. Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and six other Lashkar-e-Toiba operatives were charged with planning, financing and facilitating the 2008 terror attacks on Mumbai. A Pakistani court on October 31 dismissed a petition filed Lakhvi, a key accused in the Mumbai attacks case, seeking the transfer of his...

09:36 AM, Nov 19, 2011

Chicago: The 12-member jury of a federal court on Thursday resumed final deliberations against Tahawwur Hussein Rana, charged with involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks and providing material support to Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba. The jury from diverse ethnic backgrounds started the process on USA vs Rana case on Wednesday after more than two weeks of trial, in which his childhood friend David Coleman Headley, co-accused in the Mumbai terror...

08:42 PM, Jun 09, 2011

Chicago: The verdict on 26/11 accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana has been deferred as the Jury of a Chicago court continues deliberations on his fate. The 12-member Jury held deliberations through Wednesday and will continue to do so on Thursday. There are three charges levelled against Rana - helping the 26/11 attackers, giving material support to the LeT and planning a terror strike in Denmark. The prosecution says they have enough...

07:05 AM, Jun 09, 2011

Washington: Trying to portray 26/11 terror suspect David Coleman Headley as a conman who fooled everyone in the world including the FBI, Tahawwur Hussein Rana's attorney urged the 12-member jury of a Chicago federal court not to fall into his trap again and get fool by him. "Headley fooled everyone. Don't let Headley fool you. Please do not convict Rana in this case," defense attorney Patric Blegen pleaded in the...

07:11 AM, Jun 08, 2011

Chicago: US prosecutors on Tuesday defended a plea agreement with David Headley, co-accused in the Mumbai terror attacks, saying that this helped the FBI to extract invaluable information from him about LeT and other terrorist outfits and their leaders in Pakistan. Concluding her closing argument, government Attorney Vicky Peters told the jury that in the first two weeks of his arrest in 2009, Headley provided the entire leadership structure of...

11:33 PM, Jun 07, 2011

Chicago: Samraz, the wife of Mumbai attacks co-accused Tahawwur Rana, said on Tuesday that India was her second home and there was no reason her husband would have planned to attack that country. Refuting LeT operative David Headley's claims that Rana was very close to him and had helped him plot the Mumbai terror attacks of 2008, Samraz said, Headley was just an "Urdu speaking American friend" to her family...

11:45 AM, Jun 07, 2011

Chicago: The defence for Tahawwur Rana, co-accused with David Headly in the 26/11 attacks, rested its case after calling two witnesses but the Pakistani Canadian himself did not testify. At the hearing of the terror trial, the defence said employees at Rana's Immigration offices in New York or Toronto did not remember working with Headley. The employees - Rehana and Kashif Khan - among others, take calls at the offices....

10:19 AM, Jun 07, 2011

New Delhi: Mumbai attack accused David Headley testified on Wednesday that he had conducted a surveillance of the German Bakery in Pune, which was bombed in 2010. He also testified that he identified Chabad houses or Jeiwsh establishments in Delhi, Pushkar and Pune as potential bombing targets. Meanwhile, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who is accused of providing a cover for his good friend David Coleman Headley, is not likely to testify...

10:15 PM, Jun 01, 2011

Chicago: LeT operative David Coleman Headley on Wednesday told a US court that he had conducted a surveillance of the German Bakery in Pune and identified Chabad houses in Delhi, Pushkar and Pune which could be bombed. Testifying during the trial of Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Mumbai attack co-accused, Headley said that he made a video of the German Bakery which was bombed on February 13, 2010 killing at leat...

10:28 AM, Jun 01, 2011

Chicago: The Mumbai attack trial in a US court resumed on Tuesday with co-accused David Headley testifying that al Qaeda leader Illyas Kashmiri had a plan to kill CEO of Lockheed Martin in frustration over drone attacks along the Af-Pak border. Headley, a Pakistani-American, said this while being cross-examined by defence lawyer of Tawahhur Hussain Rana, a 26/11 co-accused and a Canadian of Pakistani origin who is standing trial after...

09:51 PM, May 31, 2011