"We have asked the Pakistani government to address those allegations in the past," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told media persons when asked about the alleged involvement of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) in the Mumbai terrorist attacks.
Pakistan may have framed charges against seven Lashkar-e-Tayiba members for their involvement in the Mumbai attacks, but what remains a fact is that certain key personnel of the outfit have been left scot-free. Apart from this what is even more shocking is that the jihad factories continue to crop up without any problem across the border.
Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist in the Mumbai terror attack who was held guilty on Monday, is a school dropout who saw Jihad as the purpose of his life.Kasab, the face of the devastating terror siege on Mumbai in which 166 persons were killed, took part in the bloodiest episode of the 60-hour siege that started on the night of November 26, 2008.
India on Tuesday said Pakistan should do more in containing militancy as well as dismantling terror infrastructure in that country. "Frankly we have not seen enough action on either, though we acknowledge that the civilian government in Islamabad had apprehended seven persons in connection with the Mumbai terror attacks," Shashi Tharoor, minister of state for external affairs, said in New York.
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday night described the blast in Pune as a 'significant terrorist incident', since the Mumbai terror attack 14 months ago, and said all information pointed to a plot to trigger the explosion in a place frequented by foreigners and Indians. "This is a sad event. Significant terrorist incident after 14 months", Chidambaram told mediapersons.
Retired Assistant Police Commissioner Samsher Khan Pathan has claimed former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh "destroyed" a mobile phone seized from the 26/11 terror attack convict Mohammed Ajmal Kasab.
An investigating officer told rediff.com that Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists Sabahuddin and Fahim Ansari -- whose names are likely to figure in the 26/11 attack chargesheet -- confessed before interrogators in Mumbai that the Rampur attack was aimed at distracting security agencies to enable the smuggling of arms into Mumbai for the big attack.
Under pressure from India and the United States to act against Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the mastermind of Mumbai terror attack, the Pakistani police today registered cases against him and one of his close aides Abu Jandal under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Samraz, the wife of Mumbai attacks co-accused Tahawwur Rana, said on Tuesday that India was her second home and there was no reason her husband would have planned to attack that country.
'Why is the Congress not tendering an unconditional apology to the citizens of India?'
Professor Marvin Weinbaum, Scholar-in-Residence at the Middle East Institute, who has served in several US administrations as an expert on South Asia, particularly in the State Department's Policy Planning Bureau and Bureau of Intelligence and Research, told Congress on Thursday that the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, responsible for the horrific 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, could surpass or replace Al Qaeda as the number one terror network worldwide.
The trailer for the Web series Mumbai Diaries 26/11 was launched at the Gateway Of India.
Late last year, the Cabinet Committee on Security had cleared the proposal for the creation of the post.
The NIA arrested the three during in-chamber proceedings before Special Judge Rakesh Syal and sought 15-day custodial interrogation.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday began a key meeting in Tehran, amid clear indications that terrorism will be the prime focus of the Indian side.
The proof of a Pakistan link to the Mumbai terror attack became stronger on Monday, with the Mumbai police saying that all the ten terrorists who had attacked the city were from Pakistan. The ATS says that three terrorists were from Multan, three from Okara, one each from Faizabad, Sialkot and Ismail Dera Islam. These men were handpicked by the Lashkar-e-Tayiba from different parts of Pakistan to carry out the attack.
Twenty-one-year-old Iman, when captured from Chowpatty after the Wednesday's audacious attack, told interrogators that he had started his career as a petty thief in Lahore, where he was staying with his brother after dropping out from school in 2000.
Saeed and the four men added to the fourth schedule of the ATA were also placed under house arrest on January 30 in Lahore amid an angry uproar from his party and political allies.
The person has been identified as one Sarfaraz Memon .
Nirupama Rao, who took over as the foreign secretary on August 1, has had a variety of issues on her platter -- the reported incursions by China along the border, the attack near the Indian embassy in Kabul, Pakistan dilly-dallying on prosecuting Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed and the mounting political pressure over the rehabilitation of displaced Tamils in Sri Lanka.
'India understands the situation of hostages by just remembering what happened to Baby Moshe as he was held hostage during the 26/11 terror attack'
The Pakistan government on Monday renewed its offer of full cooperation with India, including intelligence-sharing and setting up of joint investigative commission to probe the Mumbai attacks
Indicted for conspiracy in the Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistani Canadian citizen Tahawwaur Rana might get financial assistance from 'dangerous terrorist organisations' to flee the country if released on bond, federal prosecutors seeking his detention have argued. With Rana being named as a conspirator, he also faces a harsher jail sentence of life imprisonment in the new charge-sheet filed against him, they said.
Anti-India elements in Pakistan are planning to attack Indian computer networks, intelligence agencies have warned. Pakistani hackers are trying out a dry run by hacking popular websites registered there, home ministry sources said on Tuesday. "Every time the relations between the two countries dampen, Pakistanis start attacking Indian computer networks and this has increased after the Mumbai terror attacks," a home ministry source said.
Mumbai Police found itself in an embarrassing situation when it again sought the remand of Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorists, who are suspects in serial blasts in the country, in connection with the 26/11 probe on terror strikes only to withdraw the plea after admitting it was an error. The Mumbai police retracted since it had previously made a remand application on December 15 last to investigate if the IM terrorists had any links with those behind the Mumbai terror attacks.
The US believes Lashkar-e-Tayiba, the Pakistan-based terrorist organisation, responsible for the horrific Mumbai terror attacks on 26/11 and several other terrorist acts in India, could soon replace Al Qaeda as the number one worldwide terrorist threat or at the very least compete with Osama bin Laden's global Terror Inc.
The Union home ministry believes the newly-formed National Investigation Agency will have to reinvestigate the 26/11 case if the David Headley-Tahawwur Rana probe produces unexpected links with the Mumbai terror attacks. This will be a serious matter and hit the Mumbai police's credibility.
Talking to media persons in New Delhi, Defence Minister A K Antony said, however, India will have to take action against terrorists involved in the Mumbai attacks for the relations between the two countries to be normal.
The Mumbai terror attack changed the way India thought. Not only did the attitude of the Indian security agencies change, but it even prompted an NGO to start a full fledged course on counter-terrorism so that every person knows how to handle a terror struck situation.
Pakistan today asked India to share information and evidence on the Mumbai terrorist attacks, saying its probe into the incident could not proceed unless there is "sustained and pragmatic cooperation" between the two countries.
"Our own investigations into Mumbai (attacks) have progressed. We have received some information of an interim nature on Indian investigations. We are prepared to take this process forward with a view to uncovering the full facts, thus ensuring that the perpetrators of this heinous crime, whosoever they may be, are brought to justice," Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said
Accompanied by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, Guterres placed a floral wreath at the 26/11 attacks memorial in the hotel.
The witness, Bhalol Khan, recorded his statement in the anti-terrorism court (Islamabad), which is holding the trial of seven Mumbai attack accused, including LeT operations commander Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi.
In the two weeks since the terror attacks in Mumbai, most of the large Indian business groups in the city have been conspicuous by their absence in offering help to terror victims.
After the Paris terror attacks, "we know what Mumbai-style attack looks like", a leading British daily said on Monday, underlining that this is war in which everyone is equally at risk.
In the first top-level contact since the Mumbai terror attacks, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday during which he is understood to have made it clear that Pakistan should take concrete action against terrorism directed against India.
The Maharashtra Police has received inputs from Central intelligence agencies about possibility of terror attacks on luxury buses plying between Mumbai and Ahmedabad and steps have been taken to foil any such bid.
The Mumbai terror attacks may derail Reliance Industries' plans to start natural gas production from its eastern offshore D6 field from January 2009, as several ex-pats have refused to return to India citing safety reasons.
Sounding the call, Ed Royce from California, who is Ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism and Nonproliferation, said those involved in planning these attacks should be transferred to face trial before the international community in The Hague.
"To date, India's government has not authorised India's police agencies to enter any data relating to the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai in Interpol's databases," Interpol Secretary General Ronald K Noble told media persons.
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