India on Wednesday expressed disappointment over the America's refusal to extradite LeT terrorist David Headley even as it vowed to continue to pursue with its demand for bringing him to New Delhi for his role in 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. ...
04:26 AM, Jan 24, 2013
In what is being seen as a setback for India, the United States has ruled out the extradition of Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist David Headley - who admitted scouting targets for the deadly attacks in Mumbai on November 26, 2008 and later testified against the plotters. The 20-page report submitted by the US government in the court also sought a prison term of 30 to 35 years for Headley. ...
06:55 AM, Jan 23, 2013
Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid, in an exclusive interview with CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar, asks Pakistan to expedite the process of trials in the 26/11 attacks, saying India needs a closure in the case. ...
03:29 PM, Jan 05, 2013
The Pakistani Judicial Commission, which will cross examine four witnesses in 26/11 terror attack case, is expected to arrive in New Delhi by the end of January after approval of the Bombay High Court. ...
03:33 AM, Jan 02, 2013
India and Pakistan on Tuesday finalised the terms of reference for a judicial commission expected to visit India to gather evidence on the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks after talks held over the past five days. An agreement on the visit of the second Pakistani judicial commission to Mumbai was finalised this evening following several rounds of discussions on complex technical and legal issues, official sources said. ...
02:58 AM, Dec 26, 2012
Gauging the Pakistani establishment's mood from the statements of Rehman Malik during his recently concluded India visit, Can New Delhi actually expect Islamabad to act on the 26/11 planners and to clamp down on terror? CNN-IBN's Senior Editor Suhasini Haidar joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
05:34 PM, Dec 17, 2012
The Defa-e-Pakistan Council formed by Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed on Sunday launched a 'movement' to oppose the move to grant Most Favoured Nation-status to India. "On the pattern of a campaign against the reopening of NATO supply routes, today we announce the launching of a movement against giving India the status of Most Favoured Nation," Saeed said addressing thousands of people who joined a "peace march" to the Wagah land...
08:10 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Clarifying his controversial remarks on Babri Masjid, visiting Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik said he never compared the 26/11 attacks with the demolition. "I was simply talking about the ugly events such as Mumbai and so many others," Malik said in a press conference, after his meeting with Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. ...
03:13 PM, Dec 15, 2012
As Pakistani politicians go, Rehman Malik certainly stands out. A policeman who has made it up the ranks of a feudal political system, he was ...
02:30 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Hours before Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik arrives in India, Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has said that Pakistan's action against Hafiz Saeed and other 26/11 accused and voice samples in the case will be discussed. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Shinde said Pakistan should hand over the conspirators to India. ...
08:42 AM, Dec 13, 2012
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has requested US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to expedite the extradition of Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana to India, official sources said. ...
12:46 AM, Dec 02, 2012
New Delhi: Ram Gopal Varma has finally spoken up about the controversy surrounding his visit to the iconic Taj Hotel attacked by militants during the siege of Mumbai in 2008. In a public document titled 'Terrortour', Varma said the allegation of his seeming insensitivity towards the incident came out of a speculation that the late Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh facilitated his visit to the Taj for him to have...
03:15 PM, Nov 22, 2012
Islamabad: The execution of Ajmal Amir Kasab has revived the memory of a senseless but well-planned act of mass murder that brought Pakistan and India to the brink of war, leading Pakistani daily Dawn said on Thursday. Four years after the Mumbai terror attack, many questions still remain unanswered, the Dawn said in an editorial. Pakistani national Kasab, the sole surviving member of a 10-member terrorist group that attacked Mumbai...
01:03 PM, Nov 22, 2012
New Delhi: The hanging of 26/11 convict Ajmal Amir Kasab has led to a round of political slugfest between the Congress-led Central government and the BJP. While the Congress as well the BJP have expressed satisfaction over Kasab's hanging, the latter has also questioned on the government's stand of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. BJP leader Prakash Javadekar said that the whole country wanted Kasab's execution. "But why not Afzal...
01:57 PM, Nov 21, 2012
New Delhi: Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist Ajmal Kasab, who was hanged early on Wednesday morning at Yerwada jail in Pune, had no last wish and left no will. Kasab's last words before he was executed were - Forgive me Allah! According to the Yerwada jailor, Kasab, the sole surviving terrorist involved in the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, was very ashamed of his role in the dastardly terror strike. The jailor claimed that...
12:57 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Mumbai: A slight figure in cargo pants and sneakers and a blue sweatshirt, gun-wielding Ajmal Kasab was the face of the horrific Mumbai terror attack and the key to unravel the conspiracy hatched in Pakistan. The images of Kasab ambling cockily--a backpack on his shoulders and an AK-47 dangling carelessly--captured on camera at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus(CST) on the deadly night of November 26, 2008 formed hard evidence of his...
12:40 PM, Nov 21, 2012
New Delhi: After hearing the news of the execution of Mumbai terror attack accused Ajmal Kasab in Pune's Yerwada jail, sources in the Pakistan Presidents office on Wednesday said a repercussion could not be ruled out in the case of Sarabjit Singh, a death row prisoner in Pakistan. We respect judicial process in India. We hope that everything is done under proper scrutiny. Our understanding says Indian President has jumped...
10:05 AM, Nov 21, 2012
New Delhi: Ahead of the fourth anniversary of the Mumbai attacks, the government has linked the 26/11 probe with a prime ministerial visit to Pakistan. Highly-placed sources in the Ministry of External Affairs have virtually ruled out Manmohan Singh's visit to Pakistan pointing out that Pakistan was yet to fulfill India's expectations on 26/11. This follows Pakistan Prime Minister Asif Ali Zardari extending an invitation to the PM during a...
10:40 AM, Nov 16, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani officials have revealed the details of training given to the 26/11 Mumbai attackers. They have admitted in an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi that the key accused including Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi got training at Lashkar-e-Toiba camps in Karachi, Mansehra and Muzaffarabad. The Pakistani investigators have told court that the information has come from informers. Lakhvi's counsel has dismissed their testimony as fabricated. Lawyers defending the seven accused Pakistanis questioned...
09:35 AM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan may allow a team of Indian investigators a visit to examine evidence collected by Pakistan against November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, but the dates are yet to be decided, an official said on Monday. "Pakistan has in principle agreed to allow the National Investigation Agency (NIA) team a visit," a home ministry official said here Monday. "We are awaiting intimation of the dates on which the team...
02:11 AM, Oct 30, 2012
