G Parthasarathy welcomed the statement of S M Krishna on 26/11, but added that India needed to be firm with Pakistan. ...
01:52 PM, Nov 26, 2011
New Delhi: On the eve of third anniversary of 26/11 Mumbai attack, former Union home secretary G K Pillai on Saturday accused the United States of entering into plea bargain with one of the key accused David Headley without taking India into confidence. Pillai questioned the motive behind the US entering into the plea bargain with Pakistani-American Headley, who did a recce of the 26/11 targets for the Lashkar-e-Taiba, which...
12:25 PM, Nov 26, 2011
New Delhi: Every child dreams of elaborate plans to celebrate their birthdays. Cakes, ribbons, friends, gifts and games make children excited as they count the minutes to their birthday. But for one child, birthday celebrations are a distant dream. Two-year-old Tejaswini Chauhan, fondly known as Goli in her locality, is about to bring in her third birthday on 26/11. But for her, her birthday is simply a grim reminder of...
11:53 AM, Nov 25, 2011
New Delhi: The Mumbai terror attacks had forced the government to review security measures in order to avert a repeat of 26/11 and as much as Rs 6000 crore were earmarked for upgrading the coastal security set-up alone. However, CNN-IBN has now found that even three years after 26/11, many critical coastal security measures are languishing in government files as mere proposals. Shoaib Ahmad with this special report. There were...
09:45 AM, Nov 25, 2011
Lahore: The Jamaat-ud-Dawah, blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, on Thursday organised a rally to protest the Pakistan government's move to give Most Favoured Nation-status to India. JuD leaders who addressed the rally accused India of being behind shortage of water that is affecting Pakistani farmers. Several farmers riding tractors participated in the rally, which wound its way from from Azadi Chowk to Nasir Bagh Chowk. Senior JuD leader Ameer...
08:48 AM, Nov 25, 2011
Now that the Headley revelations are out, the question is: did the US fail India in preventing the Mumbai terror attacks? Suhasini Haidar in conversation with Sebastian Rotella of Propublica; Shuja Nawaz, author of 'Crossed Swords: Pakistan's Army and the War within' and B Raman, Intelligence Analyst. ...
04:56 PM, Nov 22, 2011
Washington: The 26/11 Mumbai attacks could have been averted if the then Bush Administration had taken seriously the warning and threat perception of Lashkar-e-Toiba's global operations by a renowned French judge, a media report has claimed. Jean-Louis Bruguiere, earned a reputation as a relentless terrorist hunter in his 30 years as one of France's powerful "investigative judges, met officials of the Bush Administration in 2007 to inform them about the...
12:48 PM, Nov 22, 2011
Islamabad: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court conducting the trial of seven suspects charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks on Saturday recorded the statement of an official who registered the First Information Report against the accused. Sardar Muhammad Azam, who was a Deputy Director of the Federal Investigation Agency when he registered the FIR, gave the court details of the procedure during proceedings held behind closed doors at Adiala Jail in...
06:25 PM, Nov 19, 2011
Washington: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari was so scared of a military coup after Osama bin Laden's death that he was ready to create a "new security team" favourable to Americans and promised the US to hand over Pak-based 26/11 perpetrators including those from its intelligence agency to India. The promises were part of a secret memo to the then Chairman of the Joint US Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike...
12:35 PM, Nov 18, 2011
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that another Mumbai-like attack would be a setback for normalisation of relation with Pakistan. ...
11:06 PM, Nov 12, 2011
On Board Air India One: Asserting that he is not putting "blinding faith" in his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani for pushing bilateral dialogue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said Pakistan's armed forces were "on board" on the peace process. He said India wanted to strengthen the hands of the civilian government in Pakistan and that Gilani, whom he met in Male on Thursday, has "clearly understood" that one...
08:36 PM, Nov 12, 2011
Addu (Maldives): India on Thursday rebuffed Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik's claim that there was no proof against Jamaat-ul-Dawa chief Hafeez Saeed to prosecute him in the 26/11 attacks case, saying it has provided dossiers which contains 'enough evidence' to take the case forward. "We have provided dossiers that have great deal of information and enough evidence that Pakistan can take forward. As far as we are concerned there is...
11:03 PM, Nov 10, 2011
Islamabad: The Jamaat-ud-Dawah, a front organisation for LeT which carried out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, is not included in a new list of 31 banned extremist and terrorist groups released by Pakistan's Interior Ministry. The Interior Ministry released the list of banned organisations on Saturday as part of efforts to bar such groups from collecting the hides of animals sacrificed during the Eid-ul-Azha festival. Hundreds of hides collected every year...
08:23 AM, Nov 07, 2011
New Delhi: The trial of Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and six other Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives charged in 26/11 will resume in a Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday. This after the Lahore High Court dismissed Lakhvi's plea seeking the transfer of his trial from Rawalpindi to Lahore. A Pakistani court on October 31 dismissed a petition filed Lakhvi, a key accused in the Mumbai attacks case, seeking the transfer of his trial from Rawalpindi...
07:50 AM, Nov 05, 2011
London: Pakistan's ISI was behind the 26/11 attacks as well as the July 2008 bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul, the BBC said in a damning report on the military-run spy agency that does not function "without the authority" of the Pakistan army chief. In a new two-part series titled 'Secret Pakistan' on BBC two, Bruce Riedel, the CIA officer who served as advisor to US President Barack Obama,...
06:53 PM, Nov 04, 2011
New Delhi: With Pakistan saying that there was no delay on its part in prosecuting people behind the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, India on Wednesday said Islamabad should not try to score "petty points" on the issue and help in bringing the perpetrators to book. "Let us not score petty points over whether the fault lies with them or us. The fact is that the crime has been done and it...
03:21 PM, Nov 02, 2011
Washington: The US is persistently asking Pakistan to take action against LeT that carried out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said but was non-committal on including this in the American scorecard on Islamabad as sought by a Congressional committee. Clinton said the US would continue to press Pakistan over its failure to bring to book those responsible for 26/11 attacks but any move to link...
05:06 PM, Oct 28, 2011
Washington: As admitted Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley confessed to his role in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, he was desperate to see some arrests made lest he be left as the lone conspirator on the hook. "I don't want to keep on and I mean I know you have plenty of evidence against me but really I'm just providing you more and more evidence against me and you aren't making...
05:10 AM, Oct 21, 2011
Lahore: A Pakistani court on Monday reserved its verdict on a petition filed by Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, charged with masterminding the Mumbai attacks, seeking the transfer of his trial from an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi to Lahore. The petition was heard by Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Chaudhry, who reserved his verdict after hearing arguments from both sides. Lakhvi's counsel Khwaja Sultan sought the transfer of the...
11:53 PM, Oct 17, 2011
New Delhi: The US on Sunday said that they were looking into possible similarities between the September 13 attacks on US and NATO targets in Afghanistan and the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. There are similarities between the two attacks that suggest an ultra-secret unit of ISI, known as "S" branch, carried out both of them, said Bruce Riedel, a former senior CIA analyst who has advised President Barack Obama on...
12:57 PM, Sep 25, 2011
