
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

New Delhi: The trial of the seven Pakistani suspects, including LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, charged with involvement in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks is set to take place on Saturday in Islamabad. The prosecutors will submit a report on the Pakistan judicial commission's visit to India. The anti-terrorism court, which is conducting proceedings behind closed doors at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi for security reasons, is unlikely to proceed in the...

10:34 AM, Apr 28, 2012

Mumbai: The visiting Pakistani judicial commission on 26/11 Mumbai attacks recorded the statements of three witnesses on Saturday. A Mumbai court judge will now send the report to the Pakistani court, where the trial has been conducted against the seven 26/11 accused. This came a day after a heated argument. The lawyer of key accused Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi demanded the right to cross examine the four Indian witnesses, which the court...

03:25 PM, Mar 17, 2012

Mumbai: The visiting Pakistani judicial commission on 26/11 will record the statements of three witnesses on Saturday, including the Chief Investigating Officer. This came a day after a heated argument. The lawyer of key accused Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi demanded the right to cross examine the four Indian witnesses, which the court rejected. The demand is a clear change in stand and so questions are being asked on whether this is a...

07:27 AM, Mar 17, 2012

New Delhi: India is all set to ask the United States and Pakistan to extradite nine persons involved in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack that include Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley, LeT founder Hafiz Saeed and two ISI officers. Government sources said the extradition requests to the US and Pakistan will be sent "very soon" as all the nine persons were directly involved in the conspiracy as well as executing the...

07:03 PM, Jan 30, 2012

New Delhi: A Pakistan court will resume trial of seven men charged in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks on Saturday. The prime accused Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi had previously sought time to appoint a new lawyer after his first lawyer passed away recently. The seven accused filed an application asking the court to adjourn proceedings for a few weeks as they were in a "state of...

07:58 AM, Jan 28, 2012

Lahore: Khwaja Sultan Ahmed, the lawyer of Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, died in Lahore on Saturday following a brief illness at the age of 82. Ahmed's son-in-law Muhammad Hasan told PTI that the noted lawyer had been admitted in Lahore's Ittefaq Hospital on December 29 after he was diagnosed with meningitis. "He recovered but a few days ago, he contracted pneumonia which proved fatal," Hasan said. He was a...

03:46 PM, Jan 14, 2012

Washington: Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani refused an American request to confiscate the cell phone of jailed LeT commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi being used to direct group's operation from the Rawalpindi jail, reflecting connection between the country's military and the terrorist outfit. "Kayani rejected a US request that authorities take away the cell phone Lakhvi was using in jail, according to the memo to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...

11:51 AM, Nov 23, 2011

New Delhi: Four prosecution witnesses are expected to record their statements on Saturday in response to the court's summons in the ongoing 26/11 trial in Pakistan. Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and six other Lashkar-e-Toiba operatives were charged with planning, financing and facilitating the 2008 terror attacks on Mumbai. A Pakistani court on October 31 dismissed a petition filed Lakhvi, a key accused in the Mumbai attacks case, seeking the transfer of his...

09:36 AM, Nov 19, 2011

New Delhi: The trial of Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and six other Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives charged in 26/11 will resume in a Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday. This after the Lahore High Court dismissed Lakhvi's plea seeking the transfer of his trial from Rawalpindi to Lahore. A Pakistani court on October 31 dismissed a petition filed Lakhvi, a key accused in the Mumbai attacks case, seeking the transfer of his trial from Rawalpindi...

07:50 AM, Nov 05, 2011

Lahore: A Pakistani court on Monday reserved its verdict on a petition filed by Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, charged with masterminding the Mumbai attacks, seeking the transfer of his trial from an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi to Lahore. The petition was heard by Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Chaudhry, who reserved his verdict after hearing arguments from both sides. Lakhvi's counsel Khwaja Sultan sought the transfer of the...

11:53 PM, Oct 17, 2011

Islamabad: The trial of seven Pakistanis charged with involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks was adjourned for a week after one of the key accused, Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, filed a petition against the judge of the anti-terrorism court. During a hearing held behind closed doors in Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail, due to security reasons, Lakhvi's lawyers submitted the petition in which he expressed dissatisfaction with Judge Shahid Rafique. Lakhvi...

02:42 PM, Sep 10, 2011

Islamabad: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court conducting the trial of LeT's Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other suspects charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks on Saturday gave prosecutors a week's time to provide copies of statements of key Indian witnesses and other relevant documents to defence lawyers. The prosecutors were unable to produce the documents during proceedings conducted by Judge Rana Nisar Ahmed behind closed doors at Adiala Jail in...

02:05 PM, Jun 11, 2011

Islamabad: One of the seven suspects arrested by Pakistani authorities for alleged involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks was detained on the basis of information provided by Saudi Arabia, according to a secret US cable released by WikiLeaks. The cable dated August 7, 2009 sent by then Charge d'Affaires Gerald Feierstein said Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested Jamil Ahmed after the Saudi Arabian government "passed information they had from...

01:18 PM, May 20, 2011

Islamabad: Pakistani authorities have declined an Indian request to send an inquiry commission to interrogate LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other suspects charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks, a media report said on Sunday. "There is no law under which we could allow the Indian investigators to grill the seven accused, who are already in judicial custody," a senior unnamed Interior Ministry official was quoted as saying...

12:39 PM, Mar 13, 2011