Washington: American nationals and relatives of those killed in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks want the confessed LeT operative David Headley to take the stand in a New York law suit they have filed against Pakistan's ISI for plotting the bloody mayhem. The victims have also stuck claim of $10 million per death and $3 million per injury from the Pakistan's spy agency on the lines of compensation received by...
03:04 PM, Aug 23, 2011
Mumbai: MT Pavit, a small ship mysteriously grounded at Mumbai's Versova Beach, has literally turned into a giant jigsaw puzzle for India's coastal security agencies. Having not even a blip on the security radar, while it was adrift towards Mumbai for a month, has left alarm bells ringing. The ship owner claimed Pavit had sunk off the Oman coast on June 29 due to water ingress in its engine room....
08:31 PM, Aug 04, 2011
Lahore: Making provocative comments again, Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed has vowed to enter India through Jammu and Kashmir. Saeed, the founder of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba and blamed by India for masterminding the 2008 Mumbai attacks, said, "From the door of Kashmir we will launch Gazwah-e-Hind (battle for Hindustan)". Addressing a meeting during a tour of several cities in Pakistan's Punjab province last week, he claimed that there was a...
06:21 PM, Jul 25, 2011
Thimphu: India has pressed Pakistan for the voice samples of the seven accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and sought speedy trial of the case in that country to bring to justice the perpetrators of the strikes. Home Minister P Chidambaram made the request to his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik when they met in Thimphuon Saturday night on the sidelines of the SAARC Interior Ministers meeting. "The Indian Home...
12:00 PM, Jul 24, 2011
New Delhi: India will soon send a team to the United States to gather more information about the activities of Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who are accused of giving material support to 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, and their confessional statements. However, the Indian team will not seek access to Headley and Rana. The decision has been taken after Union Home Secretary R K Singh...
08:31 PM, Jul 19, 2011
New Delhi: Terror struck Mumbai as three serial blasts rocked crowded areas of the city on Wednesday evening killing at least 17 people and injuring about 100 in a grim reminder of 26/11 attack that left 166 people dead. Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan said at least 13 people were killed and 81 injured in the back-to-back blasts that struck Zaveri Bazar, Opera House and Dadar in the space of a...
09:24 PM, Jul 13, 2011
New Delhi: India has decided to propose to Pakistan to increase the number of trading days from two to four for cross-LoC commerce besides multiple entry permits for 6 months for people of Jammu and Kashmir as part of Confidence Building Measures. The decision to make the proposal was taken at a high-level meeting convened by the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi recently which was attended by officials...
03:30 PM, Jul 10, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistani prosecutors on Saturday submitted documentary evidence provided by India, including confessional statement of Ajmal Kasab, in the anti-terrorism court conducting the trial of LeT's Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six others charged with involvement in Mumbai attacks, as a new judge began hearing the case. Prosecutors from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) presented three files containing the autopsy reports of those killed in the attacks, medico-legal reports of the...
04:27 PM, Jul 09, 2011
Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to Devil's Advocate. Where do relationships with Pakistan stand and has the Nuclear Supplier Group betrayed India? Those are the two critical issues I shall discuss today with the Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao. Foreign Secretary let's start with Pakistan. There is a view that the resumption of dialogue with Pakistan is of more interest to Islamabad than Delhi. For one it has lessened the pressure...
08:50 PM, Jul 03, 2011
New Delhi: Despite its commitment, Pakistan has failed to convey to India as to when its judicial commission will visit New Delhi to take the statement of the magistrate, who had recorded the confession of Ajmal Kasab, to pursue the 26/11 attacks case. During the Home Secretary-level talks held in New Delhi in March, India had agreed to host Pakistan's judicial commission to take statements of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate...
10:35 AM, Jun 26, 2011
Islamabad: The trial of LeT's Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other Pakistanis charged with involvement in Mumbai attacks was on Saturday adjourned for a fortnight as no new judge had been appointed for the anti-terrorism court hearing the case following the transfer of Justice Rana Nisar Ahmed. Ahmed, who had been hearing the case since he was appointed judge of Rawalpindi's anti-terrorist court no. III in November 2010, was transferred...
02:39 PM, Jun 25, 2011
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of the ongoing talks with Pakistan, BJP on Thursday said India appears to have diluted its earlier demand that the neighbouring country take 'speedy and credible' action against 26/11 culprits and instead reconciled to 'satisfactory closure' of the case. Speaking at a party rally, senior BJP leader L K Advani alleged that Pakistan has not taken 'a single credible step' to show that it is...
10:33 PM, Jun 23, 2011
Mumbai: Two days after CNN-IBN showed that even two years after 26/11, Mumbai's coastline is dotted with at least 56 unmonitored landing spots, Pradhan Panel member V Balachandran who investigated the attacks has blamed bureaucratic red tapism. Balachandran says, "During our 26/11 enquiry, we saw this confusion in coastal security. Lack of coastal security was the prime reason why the terrorists got easy access to Mumbai. These inadequacies were voiced ...
07:01 AM, Jun 23, 2011
Mumbai: Two days after CNN-IBN showed that even two years after 26/11, Mumbai's coastline is dotted with at least 56 unmonitored landing spots, Pradhan Panel member V Balachandran who investigated the attacks has blamed bureaucratic red tapism. Balachandran says, "During our 26/11 enquiry, we saw this confusion in coastal security. Lack of coastal security was the prime reason why the terrorists got easy access to Mumbai. These inadequacies were voiced...
07:01 AM, Jun 23, 2011
Chicago: Tahawwur Rana, who was cleared of involvement in Mumbai attacks but convicted in the Denmark terror plot, would have won the case had there been different trials for charges against him, the Pakistani-Canadian's lawyer has claimed. "It's like someone tells you that you have cancer. You have survived the cancer but have lost a leg. The good news is that you have survived the cancer," Charlie Swift, Rana's attorney,...
01:00 PM, Jun 19, 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
Mumbai: The verdict of a US court holding Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana not guilty for the Mumbai terror attacks would not effect the legal proceedings against terrorist Ajmal Kasab and also the charge against LeT that they had masterminded the strikes, special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said on Friday. "However, it pains me to hear how Rana was exonerated from criminal conspiracy of 26/11 terror attack particularly when co-accused David Headley's...
02:45 PM, Jun 10, 2011
Chicago: Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana and his family are in a "state of shock" after the jury found him guilty on two counts of terrorism related charges that could possibly result in a maximum imprisonment of 30 years. "I think, he is in shock," Charles Swift, Rana's attorney, told reporters at a news conference soon after the 12-member jury announced its verdict that Rana was found guilty of conspiracy to...
08:25 AM, Jun 10, 2011
Chicago: Attorneys of Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who was convicted on Friday by a US court for providing material support to LeT and helping a terror plot in Denmark, said they would appeal against the verdict as there was an error in the trial. Rana's attorney Patrick Blegan said he would file post-trial motions that there was not enough evidence to convict him and that there was an error in...
07:54 AM, Jun 10, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday said that it has put the trial of seven Mumbai attacks suspects on the fast track and any delay in proceedings is due to India's failure to decide on a request to allow a judicial commission to interview key officials there. In a response to Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram's remarks on Wednesday that confidence between the two countries cannot be restored till Pakistan takes action...
11:41 AM, Jun 09, 2011
