Shahid Azmi, defence counsel for five of the 13 accused, says he is challenging the law under which his clients are being tried.
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'If my clients are called insurgents, then we are going to claim POW status.'
The Anti-Terrorism Squad of Mumbai police on Thursday claimed that four of the six accused in the July 11 Mumbai train blasts confessed to the exact roles played by them in the incidents.
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'Many separatist organisations were active within the Indian states and that will be their act and we have nothing to do with such cases.'
Majid was part of a group of LeT operatives who used to take order from their western India commander S K Faisal, sources said.
Indian officials accuse London of failing to act against UK-based businessmen who use fake charities to transfer up to eight million pounds a year to terrorist outfits operating in India.
Bhutto has said that if she comes to power, she will take firm steps against terrorist organisations.
Nepalese police have arrested two Pakistanis and are investigating whether the duo has any link with the Mumbai train blasts which claimed over 200 lives.
Noted defence lawyer Majid Memon who has defended the accused in Ghatkopar blast case, on Thursday said he was ready to be the prosecutor in the Mumbai train blasts case if the Maharashtra government appoints him.
Anju's husband Krishna Kumar, a bank officer, who was killed in the Mumbai train blasts said that she has decided to immolate herself before Nitish Kumar to protest against forcible occupation of her flat by a leader of ruling party JD(U).
Many affected kin, struggling to cope with the loss of their loved ones, have been deputed as platform porters and cleaning staff in the railways.
The perpetrators of the crime would be brought to justice very soon, said the state Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil.
With President Musharraf under pressure from the US, his continuance as leader of Pakistan is under a cloud, says Anil Athale.
The US has sought their immediate extradition.
The 7/11 judgment doesn't render justice to those who died in the blasts or to those who have been convicted for it, kin of one of the convicts tells Prasanna D Zore.
'The police wasted nine years of his precious life. Who will compensate him now?' a relative of Abdul Wahid Shaikh, the only person acquitted in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case, ask Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com
Yasin Bhatkal, a dreaded terrorist and co-founder of terror-outfit Indian Mujahideen, who was arrested from the Indo-Nepal border in north Bihar, will be handed over to National Investigation Agency.
Criminal jurisprudence is based on an interesting saying, "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer." However, that does not seem to apply to the Maharashtra Anti Terrorist Squad. There are several instances to show that the agency has botched up its investigation, the latest being Pune Bakery blast main accused Himayat Baig.
'Increasingly, there is a tendency to magnify 'victimhood' of the minority for electoral gains and vote bank politics.'
'There is no doubt that there is a worldwide rise in Islamophobia. There is a tendency amongst some in India to react to this in the Indian milieu,' says Colonel Anil A Athale(retd).
'The message to India is (with attacks like Pathankot) basically what the Pakistani army is trying to test is how serious are you when it concerns the peace process with that country.'
'Counter terrorism does not appear to be good guys fighting the bad ones; it is about people being picked up, detained and charged with crimes they did not commit.'
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