The United States has said it will continue to bring to justice the other six people named in Mumbai terror attacks case, including Lashkar-e-Toiba leaders. "They are fugitives. If we can ever get our hands on them, we will try to arrest them, or have them arrested depending on what country they are found in and extradite to the United States and prosecute them here in the US," Acting US...
06:58 AM, Jan 25, 2013
Washington: Osama bin Laden had planned to kill US President Barack Obama and General David Petraeus, who then was the top US commander in Afghanistan, and had issued instructions to Illyas Kashmiri to set up two units to target planes carrying them. According to the documents seized from the Abbottabad safe-house of bin Laden, where he was killed by US forces about a year ago, the then al-Qaeda leader wanted...
12:44 AM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: American-born terrorist David Headley's return after the Mumbai terror strikes of 2008 was to give final touches to synchronised terror strikes on Jewish houses located in five cities, including the national capital on instructions of al-Qaeda operative Illyas Kashmiri. Piecing together the 293-day trail of Headley, the NIA, which submitted its 60-page charge sheet before a special court on Saturday, said that during his visit to India in...
02:50 PM, Dec 25, 2011
New Delhi: India on Wednesday said it had intelligence inputs that al Qaeda and its commander Ilyas Kashmiri were planning to target the country. "There are some intelligence inputs, though not specific, regarding plan to target India by al Qaeda and Ilyas Kashmiri," Minister of State for Home Affairs Jitendra Singh said in a statement in the Rajya Sabha. The government, the minister said, "is committed to combat terrorism, extremism...
07:34 PM, Aug 10, 2011
Islamabad: US drones targeted two compounds in the restive South Waziristan tribal region in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 10 suspected militants. The drones fired four missiles at the compounds in Karikot and Doogh areas near Wana, the main town in South Waziristan Agency, TV news channels quoted officials as saying. The men killed in the strikes were believed to be members of the Taliban faction headed by Mullah...
07:37 PM, Jun 15, 2011
Chicago: It will remain a mystery for ever as to why the 12-member jury of a Chicago court acquitted Tahawwur Husain Rana from his involvement in the Mumbai terrorist attack that killed more than 160 people, as charged by federal prosecutors in one of the three counts. As the 12-member jury decided not speak to the media after the verdict was announced and opted to remain anonymous forever, the split...
03:39 AM, Jun 11, 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
Islamabad: Pakistan apparently aided the killing of the dreaded al Qaeda linked terrorist Illyas Kashmiri, who had come to figure as the most wanted terrorist for the security establishment. "I think certainly, ISI has played a role in the particular US drone attack (that killed Kashmiri and nine others in South Waziristan)" a former senior Pakistani army officer told al-Jazeera news network. Hinting that Pakistani establishment had fingered Kashmiri, former...
03:46 PM, Jun 06, 2011
Islamabad: Banned terror group Harkat-ul Jehad-al Islami on Saturday confirmed the death of its commander Illyas Kashmiri in a US drone strike, Pakistani TV channels reported. HuJI spokesperson Abu Hanzala issued a statement in which it said it would take revenge from the US for Kashmiri's death, Dawn news and other channels reported. The channels said they had received a fax message from HuJI confirming the 47-year-old Kashmiri's death. The...
05:20 PM, Jun 04, 2011
New Delhi: Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami (HuJI) chief Illyas Kashmiri, a key suspect in the November 2008 Mumbai carnage, was killed in a US drone attack in Pakistan's South Waziristan. According to a BBC Urdu report, Kashmiri was killed along with nine other terrorists in the latest drone strikes in South Waziristan on Friday night. HuJI confirmed that Kashmiri was killed in the strike. Kashmiri was killed when US drones targeted...
01:21 PM, Jun 04, 2011
New Delhi: According to murdered Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad's book, Al Qaeda linked Illyas Kashmiri used an old ISI plan to script the devastating Mumbai terror attacks. In his book, 'Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban - beyond bin Laden and 9/11, the 41-year-old reporter has written that Pakistan's intelligence agency - the ISI - scripted the original 26/11 plan and was pushed through by key al Qaeda ally Illyas Kashmiri...
08:53 AM, Jun 02, 2011
New Delhi: The US getting tough on Pakistan. It has given the country a deadline till July to capture five most wanted al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists. Pakistani security forces have been asked to capture al-Zawahiri, Mullah Omar, Illyas Kashmiri, Sirajuddin Haqqani and Atia Abdur Rehman either in a unilateral or joint military action. July is when NATO and allied forces begin withdrawing from neighbouring Afghanistan. PTI also quoted a...
08:09 AM, Jun 02, 2011
Chicago: Pakistani-American LeT operative David Coleman Headley on Tuesday said that he made a "fool" of Tahawwur Husssain Rana by involving him in the 26/11 Mumbai attack conspiracy. "I made a fool of him (Rana). Poor fellow was stuck in this for no fault of his. I made a fool of him in getting to assist me on what I did. I made a fool of him," Headley told Rana's...
06:52 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
Islamabad: The US has drawn up a list of five terrorists, including Illyas Kashmiri who has been linked to the Mumbai attacks, it expects Pakistan to provide intelligence about immediately and possibly target in joint operations, according to a media report on Saturday. The list was discussed during three meetings between Pakistani and US officials in the past two weeks, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's talks with Pakistani leaders...
11:44 AM, May 28, 2011
Chicago: Working on a plot more sinister than Mumbai attack, David Headley and his Pakistani handlers, Illyas Kashmiri in particular, were to behead the heads of the hostages and throw the heads out of the window for their planned terrorist strike in Copenhagen. Luckily for the world, Headley, a 26/11 co-accused who at one stage was planning to fund and execute this attack on his own, was arrested before he...
07:24 PM, May 27, 2011
Washington: Former Pakistani commando Illyas Kashmiri, cited as one of the masterminds of a plot for a series of "Mumbai-style" attacks in European cities in 2010, could replace Osama bin Laden as the new terrorist head of Al Qaeda, according to US officials. The bearded Kashmiri, who is also named in the terrorism case against Pakistani Canadian accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana, has been described by one senior US official as...
12:18 PM, May 11, 2011
Washington: United States has announced an reward of $ 5 million to anyone who provides information and helps in the arrest of Mohammad Illyas Kashmiri, a key suspect in the Mumbai terrorist attack. The State department said Kashmiri is the commander of the terrorist organization Harakat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HUJI), which supports al-Qaeda, and launched several attacks in India and Pakistan. HUJI is also believed to be behind the March 2006 suicide...
11:06 AM, Apr 07, 2011
Washington: The US on Friday declared Pakistan-based HuJI as a foreign terrorist organisation and slapped sanctions on its commander Mohammad Illyas Kashmiri, believed to have been in close contact with Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Headley, for their terrorist activities in India and Pakistan. HUJI and Kashmiri have been involved in a series of terrorist activities in India, including the attack on a mosque in Hyderabad in 2007 that killed 16 people...
07:42 AM, Aug 07, 2010
Thimphu: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will reach Thimphu early on Wednesday, setting the stage for India and Pakistan to hijack yet another SAARC summit. Singh could meet his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani in Bhutan's capital Thimphu on Wednesday and Thursday, but no major breakthrough is expected, given Islamabad's response to India's dossiers on 26/11. Pakistan says the evidence against Lashkar-e-Toiba chief Hafiz Saeed is sketchy and insufficient, the...
09:30 PM, Apr 27, 2010
