
New Delhi: The $ 10 million bounty on Lashkar-e-Toiba founder and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed was the subject of a verbal tit-for-tat at an interaction Home Secretary RK Singh had with journalists in Islamabad last week. At the media conference after the two-day Home Secretary level talks, a Pakistani journalist asked Singh whether India would 'pocket' the $ 10 million bounty offered by the United States for providing evidence leading...

07:48 AM, May 29, 2012

Islamabad: India on Thursday said it has provided additional evidence against LeT founder Hafiz Saeed and other perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks to be used by Pakistani authorities to prosecute them, while expressing concern at the tardy pace of proceedings in the case. Home Secretary RK Singh said that Indian authorities had provided their Pakistani counterparts additional proof against Saeed while the Pakistani judicial commission that visited Mumbai in...

12:50 AM, May 25, 2012

Islamabad: India on Thursday voiced concern at the tardy progress in the prosecution of the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks, saying many persons who are the "actual accused" had not even been brought before the Pakistani courts. "It seems that the progress in judicial proceedings against them (persons charged with involvement in the Mumbai incident) is very slow. Many persons who are the actual accused have not been brought before...

03:22 PM, May 24, 2012

New Delhi: Talks between India and Pakistan at the Home Secretary level will begin in Islamabad on Thursday. This is the second such meeting of Home Secretaries since the 26/11 attacks in 2008 in Mumbai. A 12-member delegation, led by Home Secretary RK Singh, on Wednesday left for Pakistan on Thursday where a relaxed visa regime is expected to be inked apart from New Delhi pressing for action against perpetrators...

09:50 AM, May 24, 2012

Washington: The Mumbai attack perpetrated by Pakistan-based LeT was an example of how terror outfits use latest available IT tools for their decisive motives, a top US commander said, highlighting the role of cyber space in such events. "All the mission planning (for Mumbai terrorist attack) was done via Google Earth. There was no investment in technology of (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) platforms or anything like that," US Marine Corps...

03:18 PM, May 16, 2012

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

Mumbai: Two months after it de-brainwashed a youth, Maharashtra ATS has reformed five more young terror recruits, who received advance training at a camp in Pakistan where the 26/11 lonely captured terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab underwent terror exercise, police said. In March, a 20-something youth had approached the anti-terror unit seeking 'redemption', just a few months after completing training in making explosives, reconnaissance and brainwashing others to expand the...

04:50 PM, May 09, 2012

Hillary Clinton ends the American flip-flops on Hafiz Saeed, saying he masterminded the 26/11 attacks. ...

10:33 PM, May 08, 2012

New Delhi: It is the third and final day of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to India. She will hold a breakfast meeting with External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Tuesday before heading back home. India is expected to seek clarity from the US on the bounty on Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed. The Iran issue is also likely to be discussed. India runs the risk of facing sanctions...

07:45 AM, May 08, 2012

New Delhi: The Home Secretaries of India and Pakistan will hold bilateral talks on May 24 and 25 in Islamabad during which a liberalised visa regime for the two countries is expected to be approved apart from New Delhi pressing for action against perpetrators of 26/11 attack. During the parleys, which were being held after a delay of five months, a decision on issuance of multiple-entry and reporting-free visas for...

06:30 PM, May 07, 2012

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

Mumbai: Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil on Wednesday said there should be a timeframe to award punishment in terror cases and sought to know for how long the government should take care of Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, facing death penalty in the 26/11 case. "Kasab has killed so many innocent people. For how many days, should we take care of him is the question doing rounds in my mind," he...

12:13 AM, May 03, 2012

Washington: Hundreds of internal al Qaeda documents embedded inside a pornographic movie on a memory disk have revealed plots of carrying out attacks in Europe similar to the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. Terrorist training manuals in PDF format in German, English and Arabic were among the documents found, according to intelligence sources cited by CNN, which said it had obtained details of the documents. The German newspaper Die Zeit was...

09:54 AM, May 01, 2012

New Delhi: The United States has backtracked on the bounty announced on Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief and 26/11 suspect Hafiz Saeed. The American Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter blamed the Pakistani media instead for misreporting the issue. Cameron Munter said that the reward was for any UN declared terrorist and it could apply to any country. He was quoted by the local media in Lahore as saying, "Though Hafiz Saeed is a...

09:49 PM, Apr 30, 2012

Islamabad: The trial of seven Pakistani suspects, including LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks was on Saturday adjourned till May 5 after prosecutors submitted a report on a judicial commission's recent visit to India. Lawyers defending the seven suspects submitted an application containing their preliminary objections to the report during proceedings conducted by Judge Shahid Rafique behind closed doors at the Adiala Jail in...

06:50 PM, Apr 28, 2012