New Delhi: In a big breakthrough in the Samjhauta Express blasts investigation, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday arrested the man who allegedly placed the bomb on the train that linked India and Pakistan. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the suspect, identified as Kamal Chouhan, is a resident of Indore. He is likely to be produced in the Patiala House court in Delhi on Monday. Over 60 people had...
11:09 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Karachi: Thousands of members of hardline and outlawed extremist groups joined a rally in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Sunday, with Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Mohammed Saeed using the occasion to target the US and India. In a fiery speech, Saeed said the 40-odd members of the Defa-e-Pakistan Council would oppose any move by Pakistan to give India Most Favoured Nation-status. "India will not be a favoured nation. We...
10:27 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Lahore: India and Pakistan have the potential to boost bilateral trade to $ 15 billion a year, High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal said on Saturday at the inauguration of the largest ever India-specific trade exhibition in Pakistan. Close to 200 Indian exhibitors are participating in the three-day India Show organised at the Lahore Expo Centre. A wide array of products, ranging from gems to heavy machinery, is being showcased at the...
05:58 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Islamabad: The court conducting the trial of seven suspects charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks on Saturday adjourned proceedings till February 14 after prosecutors informed the judge that authorities were awaiting fresh dates for a Pakistani judicial commission's visit to India. Chief prosecutor Chaudhry Zulifqar Ali told anti-terrorism court Judge Shahid Rafique that Pakistani authorities were awaiting a new schedule from the Indian government for the judicial commission's visit...
05:37 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Islamabad: The visit of the Pakistani judicial commission on Mumbai attacks to India has been delayed further with a court, conducting the trial of seven suspects in the case, on Tuesday adjourning the matter till February 11. Anti-terrorism court Judge Shahid Rafique adjourned the proceedings after defence lawyers sought a delay in the commission's proposed visit to India, sources said. Khwaja Haris Ahmed, counsel for Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi,...
04:58 PM, Feb 07, 2012
London: Four radical Islamists admitted in court on Wednesday plotting to bomb the London Stock Exchange as part of a campaign of al Qaeda-inspired attacks across the British capital in the run-up to Christmas 2010. The conspiracy included plans to post bombs to the United States Embassy and the home of London Mayor Boris Johnson. Police foiled the plot at an early stage before firm dates were agreed or explosive...
01:22 AM, Feb 02, 2012
New Delhi: The sole convict in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case, Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, on Tuesday contended before the Supreme Court that he was not given a free and fair trial in the case. Senior advocate Raju Ramachandran, who has been appointed as amicus curiae by the apex court, told a bench headed by Justice Aftab Alam that he was not a part of the larger conspiracy for...
02:13 PM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: India is all set to ask the United States and Pakistan to extradite nine persons involved in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack that include Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley, LeT founder Hafiz Saeed and two ISI officers. Government sources said the extradition requests to the US and Pakistan will be sent "very soon" as all the nine persons were directly involved in the conspiracy as well as executing the...
07:03 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: A Pakistan court will resume trial of seven men charged in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks on Saturday. The prime accused Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi had previously sought time to appoint a new lawyer after his first lawyer passed away recently. The seven accused filed an application asking the court to adjourn proceedings for a few weeks as they were in a "state of...
07:58 AM, Jan 28, 2012
Nigeria has imposed a 24-hour curfew and sealed its borders with neighbouring Cameroon and Niger. ...
10:47 AM, Jan 22, 2012
Abuja: A series of coordinated bomb and gun attacks by a radical Islamist sect targeting police stations and the headquarters of Nigeria's secret police in northern city of Kano on Saturday killed nearly 150 people and injured several others, including Indians. Rabiu Kwankwaso, the governor of Kano State, imposed a 24-hour curfew after the bodies, including those of several policemen, were found scattered all over the the state capital, Nigeria's...
02:17 AM, Jan 22, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court adjourned till February 4, the hearing of arguments taking cognizance of the chargesheet filed by National Investigative Agency (NIA) against American Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative David Headley and 8 others including JuD chief Hafiz Mohd Saeed and Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi on Saturday. The NIA said that Headley's wife Faiza also had a role to play, which has been detailed in the chargesheet. "Arguments on the question...
12:19 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Islamabad: A three-member Pakistani judicial commission will visit India February 3-6 to record statements of witnesses and Indian investigators probing the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, the interior ministry said on Friday. The commission members are the head of the Special Investigation Group of the Federal Investigation Agency, Khalid Qureshi, and prosecutors Muhammad Azhar Chaudhry and Chaudhry Zulfiqar, Xinhua reported. Interior Minister Rehman Malik has thanked Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabarwal...
03:29 AM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: The 2008 Mumbai terror attack case is scheduled to come up for hearing in an anti-terrorism court in Islamabad on Tuesday. The court had previously adjourned proceedings after defence lawyers of 7 suspects failed to appear before the judge. The Federal Investigation then, filed an application that requested the judge to nominate an official to take records of the court's proceedings to India along with a Pakistani judicial...
08:52 AM, Jan 17, 2012
Mumbai: There seems to be some headway in the 13/7 Mumbai blasts probe. Sources have said that the hideout of three of the perpetrators has been found. The key blast planners operated from a third-floor flat in Byculla. Sources say the trio, including key conspirator Shahrukh Shahbandari alias Yasin Bhatkal, had rented the apartment for six months. The Maharashtra ATS wing questioned the landlord, even as the trio is believed...
10:14 AM, Jan 16, 2012
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