New Delhi: India has expressed its disappointment with the US over the State Department seeking immunity for Pakistan intelligence ISI in connection with a 26/11 trial in the country in strong words. A statement was released by India responding to the Statement of Interest filed by the US State Department on immunity for the ISI and two former DGs of the Pakistan intelligence group. The Statement of Interest has been...
07:48 PM, Dec 19, 2012
Islamabad: The Pakistan government on Monday gave its consent for a team of Indian legal experts to visit Islamabad this week to finalise the terms of reference for a Pakistani judicial commission that will go to Mumbai to gather evidence on the 2008 terror attacks on the financial hub. Pakistani officials said they had received a request from India for the visit by the delegation of legal experts on Wednesday...
11:35 PM, 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: 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: 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: Stoking a potential controversy, Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday night alluded to Babri Masjid demolition, equating the incident with the Mumbai terror attack. Malik said nobody wants to see the recurrence of incidents like Bombay blasts, Samjhauta blasts or Babri Masjid issue. "We do not want any 9/11. We do not want any Bombay blasts, we do not want any Samjhauta Express, we do not want...
11:13 PM, Dec 14, 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: India will demand handing over of Lashkar-e-Taiba founder and 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed during the visit of Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik this week, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said on Monday. He said he had raised the issue of Saeed moving freely in Pakistan with Malik, when they met in Maldives on the sidelines of a SAARC inter-ministerial conference in September, and that he should...
01:49 AM, 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: India is hopeful that the US would take a favourable decision on its request for extradition of American-born Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist and Mumbai terror accused David Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana before their sentencing in America. Official sources said that New Delhi is awaiting a response from Washington on its request sent last month to extradite Headley and Rana. US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman...
08:21 PM, Nov 29, 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
On 26/11, Nafisa lost her five year old daughter Afreen and her unborn child of three months at the Chatraparti Shivaji Terminus. ...
07:39 PM, Nov 26, 2012
New Delhi: The Tihar Jail authorities were on Monday asked by a Delhi court to produce LeT terrorist and 26/11 Mumbai attack key handler Abu Jundal before it in a case lodged by the NIA against him for allegedly conspiring to launch terror strikes across the country. District Judge IS Mehta, who had on November 3 ordered for Jundal's production before it for Monday, issued production warrant against him for...
04:43 PM, Nov 26, 2012
New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal on Monday formally launched the Aam Aadmi Party amidst loud cheers from the people who had gathered at Jantar Mantar to participate in the inauguration ceremony. Introducing the party, Kejriwal said that it will seek to eradicate corruption at all levels in the country. Ahead of the launch, Kejriwal and his colleagues took a pledge to uphold the Constitution of India under every circumstance. The Constitution...
03:27 PM, Nov 26, 2012
Monday marks the fourth anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai carnage which left 166 people dead and over 300 injured. ...
01:50 PM, Nov 26, 2012
Among those who lost their loved ones on November 26, 2008 is Chef Urbano Rego, whose 23-year-old son Chef Boris Rego died in the siege at the Taj Mahal Hotel. Urbano Rego shares his story with CNN-IBN. ...
12:30 PM, Nov 26, 2012
Bangalore: A memorial for 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks martyr Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan was inaugurated in Bangalore on Monday, on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the attacks that left 166 people dead and over 300 injured. The statue was unveiled a short while earlier. The NSG commando died during Operation Black Tornado but not before flushing out the remaining the terrorists from the Taj hotel. The 31-year-old was posthumously...
11:39 AM, Nov 26, 2012
