New Delhi: Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday made a statement in the Rajya Sabha on Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik's visit to India after Opposition MPs demanded. Shinde in his statement said that he made it clear to Malik that Pakistan was yet to act against the 26/11 accused and that Hafiz Saeed was one the main perpetrators. "I made it clear that the main issue was bringing...
01:29 PM, Dec 17, 2012
Lahore: The Defa-e-Pakistan Council formed by Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief, and 26/11 Mumbai attack mastermind, Hafiz Saeed on Sunday launched a 'movement' to oppose the move to grant Most Favoured Nation-status to India. "On the pattern of a campaign against the reopening of NATO supply routes, today we announce the launching of a movement against giving India the status of Most Favoured Nation," Saeed said addressing thousands of people who joined a...
08:10 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Islamabad: India has provided "insufficient information" against Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Mohammed Saeed and Pakistan could take action only on the basis of evidence that stands the test of courts, Interior Minister Rehman Malik claimed on Sunday. Speaking to reporters at the airport in Rawalpindi on his return from a visit to India, Malik sought to clear the air on several controversies that erupted during his trip, including his remarks equating...
09:03 PM, Dec 16, 2012
New Delhi: India on Sunday reacted strongly to Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik statement that Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist Abu Jundal was an operative of an elite Indian intelligence agency, saying it was a "ridiculous" remark. "Such a statement is ridiculous. Jundal was working with the LeT in Pakistan's soil when the Mumbai terror attack was carried out," Home Secretary RK Singh said. Singh was reacting to Malik's statement during the...
07:33 PM, Dec 16, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Sunday blamed Indian security agencies for their "failure" to prevent the Mumbai terror attack and alleged that Indian non-state actors were involved in the massacre. Malik also said had there been interaction between Pakistan and India and regular sharing of information, the 26/11 attack could have been prevented. He said Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley had conspired with al Qaeda terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri,...
07:09 PM, Dec 16, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik is winding up his visit to India, but not before stirring up another controversy. Malik claimed Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Abu Jundal, who was allegedly present in the control room during the Mumbai attacks, is an Indian agent. "Abu Jundal's statement was taken in Saudi Arabia. In his own statement, Jundal says he is a criminal having been charged in many cases. He also worked...
01:42 PM, Dec 16, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday that if Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh does not visit his country, the people will be disappointed. Malik, who met Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Saturday and reminded him of the long-standing invitation to visit Pakistan, said people in Manmohan Singh's native Chakwal district in what is now Paksitani Punjab were eager to meet him. He said the Indian...
06:29 AM, Dec 16, 2012
New Delhi/Ahmedabad: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj on Saturday discussed the alleged atrocities on Hindus in Pakistan and the slow progress of 26/11 cases with Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik. "I discussed the persecution of Hindus in Pakistan with the minister, including the recent flight of many Hindu families to India," Sushma Swaraj, Leader of Opposition in the Lower House of Parliament, told reporters after the meeting with...
10:20 PM, Dec 15, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik, who is on a visit to India, on Saturday went for damage control, saying he was not trying to equate the Babri Masjid demolition with the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks during his interaction with mediapersons after his arrival in New Delhi. Speaking to CNN-IBN, the Pakistan minister pointed that he had also brought up Shia-Sunni issues in Pakistan as well as the 9/11...
09:20 PM, Dec 15, 2012
New Delhi: Clarifying his controversial remarks on Babri Masjid, visiting Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik said he never compared the 26/11 attacks with the demolition. "I was simply talking about the ugly events such as Mumbai and so many others," Malik said in a press conference, after his meeting with Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. On Friday night, Malik had equated the 1992 demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya...
03:13 PM, Dec 15, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan's Interior Minister, who is in country for a three day visit, will call on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday, his second day of the trip, but will not hold a meeting with United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi. There has been no agenda set for the meeting with prime minister officially, but reports suggest that the two leaders may talk on the Sir Creek issue, apart...
09:35 AM, Dec 15, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik, who arrived in New Delhi on Friday evening, said that he has come to India to take the peace process forward with the country. Malik condemned terrorism and said that Pakistan doesn't want a repeat of attacks like 26/11 in India. He, however, said that Pakistan cannot act against Hafiz Saeed - the alleged mastermind of Mumbai terror attacks - because it does...
07:07 PM, Dec 14, 2012
On board special aircraft: Minister of External Affairs Salman Khurshid said on Friday that the presenting of evidence by Pakistani authorities on the Mumbai attacks to a court, that it was "a little movement as far as the accountability" of the 26/11 strikes was concerned, but felt it still "may not be the best time" for a Prime Ministerial visit. Responding to questions on Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik's visit...
02:42 PM, Dec 14, 2012
New Delhi: Hours before Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik arrives in India, Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has said that Pakistan's action against Hafiz Saeed and other 26/11 accused and voice samples in the case will be discussed. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Shinde said Pakistan should hand over the conspirators to India. Following is an excerpt from the interview: Arunima: What will be the take away from this dialogue between...
08:42 AM, Dec 13, 2012
Mumbai: Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has finished shooting for his movie 'The Attacks of 26/11', and says the film, based on the Mumbai terror strike, has changed him as a person. "Just took the last shot of the massacre at CST (Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus) station and with this, the film is completely done. Kasab and his fellow terrorist Ismail had killed nearly 65 people at the CST station and injured...
03:42 PM, Dec 11, 2012
New Delhi: The judicial custody of LeT terrorist and 26/11 Mumbai attack key handler Abu Jundal was on Monday extended by 12 days by a Delhi court in a case lodged by the NIA against him for allegedly conspiring to launch terror strikes across the country. Jundal was produced before District Judge IS Mehta in an in-chamber proceeding and the court extended his judicial custody till December 22 after National...
04:39 PM, Dec 10, 2012
New Delhi: A PTI report has claimed that Pakistani investigators have presented photographic evidence of the LeT training camps in Sindh and of the motorboat used by the ten terrorists who struck Mumbai on November 26, 2008, in the anti-terrorism court conducting the trial of the 26/11 attacks. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) submitted the evidence in court. The court is conducting the trial of seven Pakistanis including Zakiur Rehman...
04:07 PM, Dec 09, 2012
Mumbai: Both Maharashtra and the Union government spent Rs 28.46 crore to provide food, security, medicines and clothes during Ajmal Kasab's confinement in Arthur Road Central prison in Mumbai and at Yerwada jail in Pune. The government spent Rs 9,573 on Kasab's funeral and on the day of his execution, it spent Rs 33.75 on food and Rs 169 on his clothes, according to information obtained through an RTI query...
11:23 PM, Dec 06, 2012
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has requested US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to expedite the extradition of Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana to India, official sources said. They said Khurshid has written to Hillary for extradition of Headley and Rana before their expected sentencing in January 2013. US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, who was in the capital last week,...
12:46 AM, Dec 02, 2012
New York: The United States is moving forward in its 26/11 Mumbai attacks trail. A US court has fixed January 17, 2013 as the date for sentencing of Mumbai attacks accused Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist David Headley. His accomplice Tahawwur Rana's sentencing date has been rescheduled from December 4, 2012 to January 15, 2013. 52-year-old Headley, who conducted a recce of all Mumbai targets and provided material support to the Lashkar has...
07:58 AM, Nov 29, 2012
