Washington: Pakistan denied the charge of a key plotter of the Mumbai terror attack who said that Pakistani spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) provided support to Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) for carrying out the 2008 attack. "This is a completely incorrect statement from him," a spokesman for the Pakistani Embassy in Washington said of Pakistani American David Coleman Headley's testimony before a Chicago Federal court on Monday at the trial of his...
04:55 PM, May 24, 2011
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) interrogated terror suspect David Coleman Headley, currently in US custody, from June 3-9, 2010. The NIA team interrogated Headley for 34 hours in total. Below is a copy of the NIA report accessed exclusively by CNN-IBN: Executive summary pertaining to the interrogation report of David Coleman Headley@Daood Gilani: David Coleman Headley presently in the custody of the US authorities was given access to the NIA...
04:25 PM, May 24, 2011
New Delhi: Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who is a co-accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, revelations that Pakistan's spy agency, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), had connections with the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and that the two organisations coordinated with each other for financial and military support for carrying out the carnage in Mumbai in November 2008 validates India's stand, Government sources have told CNN-IBN. Government sources told CNN-IBN that the prosecution's...
12:49 PM, May 24, 2011
Washington: Pakistan has denied the charge of a key plotter of the Mumbai terror attack who said that Pakistani spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) provided support to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) for carrying out the 2008 attack. "This is a completely incorrect statement from him," a spokesman for the Pakistani Embassy in Washington said of Pakistani American David Coleman Headley's testimony before a Chicago Federal court Monday at the trial of his...
12:38 PM, May 24, 2011
New Delhi: The crucial trial of Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who is a co-accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, began in Chicago on Monday. David Coleman Headley, the key plotter, was first to take the stand. He told the court that Pakistan's Intelligence Agency, ISI, had connections with the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and that the two organisations coordinated with each other for financial and military support. Headley also claimed he...
07:39 AM, May 24, 2011
Chicago: Pakistan's Intelligence agency ISI had links with Mumbai attack co-accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana and David Headley, the prosecution submitted during the trial of Rana that opened in the US on Monday. During opening statements at Chicago's Dirksen Federal Building, Assistant US Attorney Sarah Streicker said that Rana, a Pakistani-Canadian, told Headley, an American of Pakistani origin, after the Mumbai carnage in which 166 persons were killed in November 2008...
09:50 PM, May 23, 2011
Chicago: US attorney Charles Swift, who is representing Canadian-Pakistan Tahawwur Hussain Rana in his trial here for his alleged role in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, says his client has been betrayed by his friend David Headley. A former US Navy attorney in the rank of a lieutenant commander, Seattle-based Swift has made a career out of defending high-profile accused terrorists, including Osama bin Laden's driver Salim Ahmed Hamdan and...
11:04 AM, May 23, 2011
Chicago: In perhaps the most important terrorism trial ever to be held, Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a co-accused in the Mumbai attack case is expected to spill the beans on ISI's role in the terror strike. The arguments in the trial of 50-year-old Rana, co-accused with Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, will be heard by a 12-member jury on Monday. The jurors, four men and...
09:35 AM, May 23, 2011
Chicago: In perhaps the most important terrorism trial ever to be held, Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a co-accused in the Mumbai attack case is expected to spill the beans on ISI's role in the terror strike. The arguments in the trial of 50-year-old Rana, co-accused with Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, will be heard by a 12-member jury on Monday. The jurors, four men and...
04:09 PM, May 22, 2011
Washington: As the trial of Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana began in a Chicago court, the United States has asked Pakistan to respond to its questions with regard to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, a State Department official said. "We have asked the Pakistani Government to address those allegations in the past," State Department spokesman Mark Toner replied when asked about the alleged involvement of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) in...
11:49 AM, May 17, 2011
Chicago: The trial of Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana who is accused with David Coleman Headley for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks began on Monday. Rana, a 50-year-old Chicago businessman, is accused of helping his childhood friend, Headley, to scout targets for the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) for the Mumbai attack that killed 166 people, including six Americans. The trial began with the jury selection process at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse....
07:38 AM, May 17, 2011
Washington: As the trial of Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana began in a Chicago court, the United States has asked Pakistan to respond to its questions with regard to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, a State Department official said. "We have asked the Pakistani Government to address those allegations in the past," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters when asked about the alleged involvement of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI)...
07:18 AM, May 17, 2011
New Delhi: India is likely to get access to Tahawwur Hussain Rana, the Pakistani Canadian accused in the Mumbai terror attack case, after completion of his trial in an American court in June. The request to question Rana, a key accomplice of Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Headley, by India has been sent to the authorities in the US after gathering evidence about his involvement in the planning of the 26/11 attacks....
08:32 PM, May 10, 2011
New Delhi: India on Thursday said there was no dilution in its position that all those responsible for the Mumbai terror attack should be brought to justice expeditiously and the on-going dialogue with Pakistan will seek to address the country's terrorism-related concerns. "It is our expectation that all those responsible for the Mumbai terrorist attack will be brought to justice expeditiously. This position is shared by the international community at...
10:37 AM, Apr 14, 2011
Washington: The US has reminded Pakistan of its 'special' responsibility to bring perpetrators of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks to justice and asked it to do so 'urgently'. "There's an international responsibility to cooperate to bring the perpetrators to justice and that Pakistan has a special responsibility to do so transparently and urgently," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters at his daily news conference. He was responding to queries on...
07:31 AM, Apr 13, 2011
New Delhi: India-Pakistan tensions are likely to be inflamed by a trial slated to begin in the United States next month as terrorists accused in the 2008 Mumbai attacks prepare to say they believed themselves to be working for Pakistan's spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, according to a report in the daily Globe and Mail. On May 16 in Chicago, Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana is to go on trial for allegedly...
11:41 AM, Apr 12, 2011
New Delhi: India is contemplating sending a commission to the United States for getting evidence from Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist David Headley and his wife, who has been kept away from Indian investigators so far. The National Investigation Agency, which is probing the case, also plans to file a charge sheet soon against the Pakistani-American terrorist who is accused of having done recce of targets before the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. Union Home...
09:23 AM, Feb 13, 2011
Toronto: The US trial of Pakistani-born Canadian citizen Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who is charged with helping David Headley in masterminding the Mumbai terror plot, has been postponed till May at his request. The trial, which was scheduled to start Feb 14, will now begin May 16 at the request of Rana's lawyer. Rana, 49, who runs immigration service in Chicago with offices New York and Toronto, was arrested Oct 3...
09:46 AM, Jan 09, 2011
Washington: LeT operative David Headley, who scouted targets in Mumbai for 26/11 attacks, was a Pakistani spy working for ISI, whose chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha was possibly aware of the plot to strike India's financial hub, claims an investigative news report. "In essence, US and Indian officials say, Headley was more than a terrorist: He served as a Pakistani spy," investigative American journalist Sebastian Rotella wrote in 'ProPublica.Com'....
11:13 AM, Jan 01, 2011
