Islamabad: Pakistan on Wednesday said it had not received any request from the family of Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, who was hanged in an Indian jail. Any request from Kasab's family to bring back the body would be handled in accordance with Pakistani laws, Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters in Islamabad. "No member of Ajmal Kasab's family or relative has requested...
10:39 PM, Nov 21, 2012
26/11 Mumbai terror attacks convict Ajmal Kasab was on Wednesday morning hanged at Pune's Yerwada jail. ...
09:46 PM, Nov 21, 2012
New Delhi: Execution of Mumbai terror attacks accused Ajmal Kasab has brought the spotlight now on the hanging of Parliament attack accused Afzal Guru. Sources said that a decision will be taken on him soon. The government's hope of being perceived as decisive post the execution of the 26/11 convict may not last long. Afzal Guru is on death row after being convicted of carrying out attack on Parliament in...
09:20 PM, Nov 21, 2012
New Delhi: India and Pakistan on Wednesday sparred over communication about the hanging of the lone surviving terrorist of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks Ajmal Kasab. Immediately after the hanging was carried out in Pune, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said Indian mission in Islamabad had informed Pakistan government about the hanging. "The External Affairs Ministry through our mission in Islamabad had informed the Pakistan government about Kasab's hanging. When...
09:10 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Lahore: Pakistani security and intelligence agencies on Wednesday barred journalists and television cameramen from entering Ajmal Kasab's hometown in Punjab province, hours after the lone surviving terrorist involved in the Mumbai attacks was hanged in a Pune jail. The security personnel, who were in plain clothes and pretended to be villagers, stopped reporters from entering Faridkot village, located 150 km from the Punjab capital of Lahore, several journalists said. The...
08:14 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Ajmal Kasab was hanged at Pune's Yerawada jail at 7.30 am on Wednesday and buried inside the jail premises. ...
07:58 PM, Nov 21, 2012
New Delhi: Even as news of 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab's hanging sparked reactions across India, the reaction in Pakistan - the land of Kasab's birth - was muted. Indian government admitted it had had trouble getting a response from Pakistan. Minister of External Affairs Salman Khurshid said, "We had trouble even giving the note to Pakistan and had to fax." In the only official statement Pakistan's Foreign office, said it...
07:49 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Ajmal Kasab was hanged at Pune's Yerawada jail at 7.30 am on Wednesday and buried inside the jail premises. ...
07:36 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Pune: The hangman who executed Ajmal Kasab at Yerwada prison on Wednesday was paid Rs 5,000 for the job but his identity kept a secret. The hangman was also kept in the dark on the identity of the death row convict till a few minutes before the execution which marked the culmination of the secret operation coded 'Operation X'. As the 25-year-old lone Pakistani gunman in the 2008 Mumbai terror...
07:01 PM, Nov 21, 2012
We will deal with Afzal Guru case obejectively; we will not fast track the case without any reason, Salman Khurshid said. ...
06:32 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Mumbai: Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, who is making 'The Attacks of 26/11', is inviting policemen who battled Pakistani terrorists in Mumbai in 2008, to view a 15-minute sequence of the movie Friday. Varma intends to release it early 2013 in both Indian and international markets. So, it made sense for the filmmaker to launch the first look now, three days before the fourth anniversary of the terror attack. "We are...
06:17 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Ajmal Kasab was hanged at Pune's Yerawada jail at 7.30 am on Wednesday and buried inside the jail premises. ...
06:02 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Mumbai: Pakistani gunman, Ajmal Kasab, who was hanged on Wednesday, was a fan of legendary playback singer late Mukesh and used to sing his favourite tunes during legal interviews, his lawyer Amin Solkar said on Wednesday. "'Hum chod chale is mehfil ko, yaad aaye to kabhie mat rona' (I am leaving this world, if you remember me please do not cry) rendered by Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab in jail keeps...
05:55 PM, Nov 21, 2012
New Delhi: Ajmal Kasab's identity remained 'C-7096' throughout his prison term and even when an official dossier was written for his hanging. The movement and activities of Kasab, who was hanged in Pune's Yerwada Jail, was always kept very secret and when official documents were moved regarding his hanging after the President rejected his mercy plea, he was identified by this number. The number was tagged to Kasab by the...
05:39 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Mumbai: Wednesday appears to be a day of significance in the life of Ajmal Kasab, who was hanged on November 22. It was on a Wednesday that the Pakistani gunman had entered Mumbai along with his nine other Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorists to carry out the deadly attack. 25-year-old Kasab, the lone surviving gunman in the Mumbai attack, was hanged on Wednesday at 7.30 am at Yerwada central jail in prison....
05:20 PM, Nov 21, 2012
The man who spearheaded the trial against Ajmal Kasab all these years, Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam spoke to CNN-IBN and spoke about Kasab's trial and execution. "Kasab was given a fair trial. The country has emerged victorious.. By hanging him we have paid homage to all those policemen and innocent victims who lost their lives in the 26/11 Mumbai terror operation by LeT," Nikam said. "The 26/11 attackers wanted ...
05:01 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Mumbai: Ajmal Kasab, the sole surviving terrorist of the 26/11 attack and a member of Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) was hanged at Pune's Yerawada jail at 7.30 am on Wednesday and later buried inside the jail premises. A fax message on the decision taken on Kasab was sent to Pakistan's foreign ministry. While Pakistan acknowledged the fax, it has not claimed Kasab's body. Kasab's mercy plea was rejected by...
04:24 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Pune: Minutes before his execution in Pune's Yerwada prison on Wednesday, Pakistani gunman Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab appeared to be nervous but was quiet and offered prayers, a jail official said. "From his body language, we could make out that he was very nervous. However, he remained quiet before he was taken out from his cell for the hanging," the official said. Kasab had also offered prayers and asked if...
02:34 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Pakistan on Wednesday rejected India's charges that it had ignored its note informing it of 26/11 convict Ajmal Kasab's hanging. ...
02:28 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan on Wednesday rejected India's assertion that it refused to accept a letter on the decision to hang Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving Pakistani terrorist involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, saying it had "received that note and acknowledged its receipt." Reacting to the execution of Kasab in a jail in Maharashtra early this morning, Foreign Office spokesman Moazzam Khan said Islamabad had adopted the clear and consistent position...
02:21 PM, Nov 21, 2012
