Lahore: The Pakistan government on Monday informed a court that it could not defend Jamaat-ud-Dawah Chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed in a US lawsuit filed by relatives of two Jewish victims of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Deputy Attorney General Naseem Kashmiri, in a written reply submitted on behalf of Foreign Ministry to Justice Umar Ata Bandial of the Lahore High Court, said, "The government is defending the ISI before the...
09:29 PM, May 30, 2011
Chicago/Islamabad: LeT operative David Headley has told a jury in the Tahawwur Rana trial that Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani attended his father's funeral, but the latter's office rubbished the claim. Headley, 50, made the claim during his testimony in the trial of the Mumbai attack co-accused Rana in Chicago. Headley told jury during the course of questioning on Thursday that Prime Minister Gilani attended the funeral of his ...
10:40 PM, May 29, 2011
The BJP is closely following the developments in the 26/11 trial and says the government must demand access to all those who were responsible for the 26/11 outrage in Mumbai. ...
07:01 PM, May 29, 2011
Chicago: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had attended the funeral of Mumbai attacks accused David Headley's father in 2010. This was disclosed by 50-year-old Headley at a Chicago court during the trial of co-accused Tahawwur Rana (50) in the 26/11 attacks case. He told jury during the course of questioning on Thursday that Prime Minister Gilani attended the funeral of his father Syed Saleem Gilani and also offered condolences...
01:44 PM, May 29, 2011
New Delhi: Voicing concern over the terror machine still remaining intact in Pakistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the leadership in Islamabad to "now wake up" and stop jehadi groups operating from its soil to target India. Sending a message to Pakistan in the wake of the Karachi attack, Singh has said its leadership should realise that the terror machine there was "equally hurting" them and must take more...
09:28 AM, May 29, 2011
New Delhi: Returning from his Africa tour, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to the media on board his special aircraft, addressing a wide range of issues. Manmohan Singh said that the epicentre of terrorism is in the neighbourhood, and that Islamabad should act against groups patronising terror. He also hinted at action to control oil subsidy, which could be taken as a sign that more fuel hikes cannot be ruled...
09:28 PM, May 28, 2011
New Delhi: The US, on Friday promised to share comprehensively with India, the information related to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. Speaking at the India-US Homeland Security meet, US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano pointed out that the US had given India "full access" to David Coleman Headley, US-based LeT operative who played a key role in the Mumbai attacks. "I think when the case is over, there will...
09:54 AM, May 28, 2011
Chicago: Tahawwur Rana, the 26/11 co-accused, did not congratulate co-conspirator David Coleman Headley, unlike several others, on the success of the Mumbai terror attacks, attorney of the Pakistani-Canadian said during the trial. Rana's attorney Patrick Blegen told a Chicago court that for 26/11 carnage, Headley was congratulated by his brother Hamza and wife Shazia among several others, but not by Rana. 50-year-old Rana was charged in the case that he...
09:05 AM, May 28, 2011
New Delhi: David Headley's testimony for the fourth day of the 26/11 trial in a Chicago court ended on the lines of him saying that he wasn't proud of the attacks and that the Lashkar-e-Taiba wanted him to lead the Mumbai attackers. However, he did not give no further explanations on why this sudden confession on the Mumbai terror attacks. Headley also made several other points during the cross examination...
07:59 PM, May 27, 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
Chicago: Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Headley, testifying about the planning of the 2008 militant raid on Mumbai, told the court of the terror outfit's ambitious plans to enter Bollywood by launching Rahul Bhatt, son of film director Mahesh Bhatt, in a movie but disagreed with the defence that there was a plan to kill or kidnap him. Headley told a US court that he befriended Rahul and conceded that he even...
02:26 PM, May 27, 2011
Chicago: Viewing the terror strikes unfold in Mumbai on television, David Headley's first wife Shazia used code words like "I am watching cartoons" to convey to him that he had "graduated", a term she used for success of the 26/11 strikes. "I've been watching these cartoons (attacks) all day and I am proud of you," Shazia wrote in an email to 50-year-old Mumbai accused during the strikes. In her congratulatory...
12:31 PM, May 27, 2011
Chicago: David Headley on Thursday concluded his testimony in the 26/11 trail by saying he had attended over 50 training sessions with the ISI. He also revealed that his handler ISI's Major Iqbal used a cell phone with a US number to stay in touch with him from Pakistan, while he was in Mumbai. On the last day of his testimony, David Coleman Headley also revealed that a Pakistani Navy...
07:34 AM, May 27, 2011
New Delhi: Chilling details about extensive plots to strike high profile and sensitive targets in India are coming out in the closely-watched trial of Pakistani-born businessman Tahawwur Rana who is charged with helping the Lashkar-e-Taiba plan the 2008 strikes that killed 160 people. The documents that have come to light in trial of Rana show how the Lashkar plotted attacks, in great details, on Indias nuclear installations, Jewish organizations and...
04:27 PM, May 26, 2011
A copy of a legal decree, dated February 2006, certifying Daood Gilani's change of name to David Coleman Headley. ...
04:23 PM, May 26, 2011
The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois has released a copy of David Coleman Headley's American passport. ...
03:01 PM, May 26, 2011
A transcript of a telephonic conversation between Sajid Majeed alias Sajid Mir alias Wasi alias Ibrahim and an unnamed terrorist during the November 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai, was released by United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai Attacks trial against Tahawwur Hussain Rana. The terrorist along with this associate, Umar, had taken a hostage and Wasi is instructing them on...
02:52 PM, May 26, 2011
Photos released by the the United States Attorney's Office of the Northern District of Illinois in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai Attacks trial against Tahawwur Hussain Rana. Some of the photographs were shot by David Headley during his reconnaissance trip to India. ...
12:59 PM, May 26, 2011
Clips of video shot by David Headley using a mobile phone camera during his visit to Denmark in 2009. ...
12:52 PM, May 26, 2011
