Islamabad: Pakistan's Defence Ministry on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that there is no political cell within the ISI, adding another twist to a case regarding the powerful spy agency's alleged efforts to influence national politics. A military official representing the Defence Ministry told a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry that no political cell was operating in the ISI. The bench was hearing a petition filed by...
03:04 PM, Oct 03, 2012
New Delhi Irked over Pakistan's failure to punish those involved in 2008 Mumbai terror attack, India has asked Islamabad to allow a NIA team to visit and examine the evidence collected against the attack masterminds before it allows the second visit of a Pakistani judicial Commission. India also wants the NIA team to meet the witnesses of the 26/11 case in which LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six others...
10:13 PM, Oct 01, 2012
Islamabad: Five prosecution witnesses on Saturday testified before a Pakistani anti-terrorism judge about the training of the terrorists who carried out the November 2008 assault on India's financial hub of Mumbai, official sources said. The witnesses, including intelligence operatives and officials of the Federal Investigation Agency, appeared before Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman of the Rawalpindi-based anti-terrorism court and recorded their statements during proceedings held behind closed doors at Adiala Jail. Sources...
04:53 PM, Sep 29, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court will hear the case against key 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks handler Abu Jundal on Friday. The court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidya Prakash had on Wednesday issued a warrant for Jundal to be brought before it on September 28. On Thursday, the Delhi Police filed a chargesheet against Jundal, accusing him of involvement in terror activities across the country. In the chargesheet, the Delhi Police...
10:35 AM, Sep 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Wednesday filed the chargesheet against 26/11 handler and Lashkar-e-Toiba operative Abu Jundal in a Delhi court. Even though Jundal is related to Mumbai attacks the charegsheet was filed by the Delhi Police because they had arrested a Pakistani national Mohammed Adil while investigating the Jama Masjid blast case and on his lead tracked down Abu Jundal. The chargesheet was filed by Delhi Police Special...
05:36 PM, Sep 26, 2012
Bandos Island: India has asked Pakistan to handover voice samples of the handlers of the Mumbai attackers, speed up the trial against 26/11 terror accused, including Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, and to stop cross-border terrorism. During his first meeting with Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik on the sidelines of the SAARC Home/Interior Ministers conference, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde referred to pending requests, including punishment to those who were...
04:56 PM, Sep 26, 2012
Islamabad: The trial of LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other Pakistani suspects charged with involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks was on Tuesday adjourned till September 29 as the judge was unavailable to conduct the hearing. Court officials in Rawalpindi said the hearing had been put off till Saturday. It could not immediately be ascertained whether the judge was unwell or on leave. Five prosecution witnesses had been...
03:47 PM, Sep 25, 2012
Mumbai: Ajmal Amir Kasab's mercy petition, addressed to President Pranab Mukherjee, has been "rejected" by Maharashtra Home Ministry, days after the lone surviving perpetrator of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks set in motion the last option available to save his life. "The Home Ministry has rejected Kasab's petition and has forwarded it to the Chief Minister's Office," sources in the home department said on Monday. Under the rules, the Chief Minister's...
05:06 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Thane: A social worker, who had barely left the CST railway station when Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab and his accomplices wreaked havoc on November 26, 2008, has been sending letters every day to the Prime Minister and President since then, praying that he must be hanged immediately. On death row for the brazen Mumbai terror attacks in 2008, the lone surviving perpetrator, Kasab, recently filed a mercy petition before the...
12:56 PM, Sep 23, 2012
Mumbai: The 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks convict Ajmal Kasab has sent his mercy petition to President Pranab Mukherjee. Kasab's mercy plea has been filed through the Arthur road jailor to the President's office. Kasab has been sentenced to death in the 26/11 case. If executed, Kasab will be the 52nd person to be hanged in India since independence. Kasab has ahead of him people like Mohammed Afzal Guru, the terrorist...
01:06 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai terror attack convict Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, lodged in a high security jail in Mumbai, has been given certified copy of the last month's Supreme Court verdict confirming death sentence on him, while he remained silent on filing a mercy petition. "Kasab was given certified copy of his death sentence confirmation verdict three days ago on which he had signed. One copy was given to him and the...
03:59 AM, Sep 12, 2012
Mumbai: A special MCOCA court today allowed Maharashtra ATS to take 26/11 key handler Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal to Nashik in connection with a case in which he made a bid to attack the police academy there. The court remanded Jundal to judicial custody till September 24 in the Aurangabad Arms Haul case. The ATS would produce Jundal in a Nashik court and seek his remand, officials said. ATS...
05:10 AM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: Key 26/11 attacks handler Abu Jundal's police custody ends on Monday and the matter is set to come up for hearing at a Mumbai court. The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) was given the custody of Jundal for their investigations into the 2006 arms haul case and the 26/11 attacks. In May 2006, the ATS chased down two vehicles on the Chandwad-Manmad Highway in Aurangabad, one of which was...
08:04 AM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna met Punjab Governor Latif Khosa and Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday. Upon his arrival in Lahore, Krishna said, "Well, all this is going to help foster a much more cordial relationship between our two countries." "It is my earnest desire and the desire of Dr Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India, and the people of India that we would like...
03:47 PM, Sep 09, 2012
Islamabad: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said on Saturday that there was no question of India backtracking on the sensitive issue of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack as India and Pakistan move forward in their dialogue. "Mumbai is very much on the table. They (Pakistan) will have to take follow up action on that. India is not going back on it," Krishna told visiting Indian journalists here at the end...
03:52 AM, Sep 09, 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
Islamabad: Pakistan plans to send a second judicial commission to India to cross-examine key witnesses in the Mumbai attack case to speed up the prosecution of seven Pakistani suspects, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Friday. Malik said the Pakistan government had requested its Indian counterpart to allow a second commission to visit Mumbai and was awaiting a response. "Once the commission is allowed to visit and cross-examine the witnesses,...
10:39 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Islamabad: "Terrorism was mantra of the past, terrorism is not the mantra of future," said Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Friday ahead of her talks with Indian counterpart SM Krishna, asking India to see the Mumbai terror attack trial "realistically" and not "emotionally". She also indicated that the new visa agreement would be inked during Krishna's visit. Asserting that Pakistan has sent some very "serious signals" in viewing...
09:01 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Islamabad: "Terrorism was mantra of the past, terrorism is not the mantra of future," said Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Friday ahead of her talks with Indian counterpart SM Krishna, asking India to see the Mumbai terror attack trial "realistically" and not "emotionally". She has also indicated that the new visa agreement will be inked during Krishna's visit. Asserting that Pakistan has sent some very "serious signals" in...
05:27 PM, Sep 07, 2012
New Delhi: A Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court on Monday extended the custody of key 26/11 handler Abu Jundal till September 10. The court also allowed Jundal to meet his parents for about ten minutes to arrange for a lawyer. Jundal was brought to Mumbai in July after a Delhi court gave the Maharahstra ATS his custody. The ATS, in turn, handed Jundal over to the Mumbai...
12:23 PM, Sep 03, 2012
