The Pakistani anti-terror court, which is conducting the trial of Lashker-e-Tayiba operatives and other suspects accused of involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks, on Saturday adjourned the hearing till September 19. The proceedings are being conducted in-camera and the judge has ordered a media blackout, citing national security concerns as well as the security of the accused and witnesses.
Lawyers defending the seven suspects arrested for their alleged involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks on Monday demanded that Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone attacker nabbed in India, should be brought to Pakistan to face trial with the other accused. The lawyers made the demand when proceedings resumed in the trial of the seven accused, including Lashker-e-Tayiba operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, at the high-security Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.
The 34-year-old replaced Iftikhar Ahmed, who managed only 44 runs in four innings in the recent tour of Australia where Pakistan lost both Tests.
Pakistani officials said the July 2 attack targeted a bus carrying workers from a non-nuclear military plant, but military analysts quoted by International Herald Tribune on Monday said they believed that was an effort to avoid embarrassment of admitting that a vehicle connected with the nuclear programme had been hit.
Pakistani authorities were on Saturday caught on the wrong foot as an anti-terror court hearing the 26/11 case was told that Interpol was yet to be approached for a Red Corner notice for Ajmal Kasab, weeks after they claimed the matter had been taken up with the Paris-based agency.
The Pakistani military had roped in several top militant leaders, including one currently in jail, to negotiate with terrorists who had held dozens of hostages after an attack on the army headquarters last week, a media report said on Friday.The leaders of banned militant groups were flown to the garrison city of Rawalpindi on special flights from Lahore, Bahawalpur and Rahimyar Khan,shortly after the terrorists took over the building.
Tahir Ali profiles the Amjad Farooqi and Ilyas Kashmiri groups, responsible for the recent surge of terrorism in Pakistan.
The Pakistan government is unlikely to order a probe into the audacious terror attack on the Army's General Headquarters in Rawalpindi which rocked the troubled nation last Saturday. According to sources, the Gilani government fears that any such inquiry could lead to the downfall of the government, in similar fashion to the Junejo government, which fell apart, following the Ojhri camp tragedy in 1988.
A moderate earthquake rattled Jammu and Kashmir early on Friday morning. So far authorities say there has been no report of any loss of life and property.
The attack on the Pakistan Army headquarters in Rawalpindi reportedly saved two top officers from being sacked for creating misunderstanding between the Army and the President House, according to a Pakistani daily.
At least 28 people were killed and over 40 injured on Monday in a suicide attack in a market in northwest Pakistan's restive Malakand area, the latest in a series of terror strikes that have rocked the country.
A Pakistani anti-terror court has formally indicted Lashkar-e-Tayiba's operations chief Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other suspects arrested in connection with the Mumbai attacks and adjourned the case for a week.
In a dramatic rescue mission, Pakistani commandos on Sunday stormed a building near the army headquarters in Rawalpindi to end a 20-hour siege freeing 42 hostages held by the Taliban terrorists, who staged a brazen assault on the top military facility, and killed 4 militants.
Saturday's audacious attack by Taliban militants in Rawalpindi has shocked the Pakistani establishment and society.
Heavy firing and explosions were reported on Saturday near the entrance of the Pakistan Army's General Headquarters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, though it could not be immediately ascertained if there were any casualties.
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday adjourned for a week the trial of seven suspects, including Lashkar-e-Tayiba's operations chief Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, in connection with the terror attack on Mumbai. The judge, conducting the trial within the high-security Adiala Jail in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, has imposed strict gag orders. However, sources said the hearing was again adjourned on Saturday for a week. But the reason for putting off the trial was not known.
A bomb explodes near a vehicle carrying former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto on Thursday at a political rally in Rawalpindi.
Justice Chaudhry Muhammad Ijaz of the Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High Court issued the notices on Monday asking Musharraf and others to respond by the second week of November. The court was asked to direct the filing of an FIR against Musharraf, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Babar Awan, former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, former Intelligence Bureau chief Ejaz Shah and former caretaker interior minister Hamid Nawaz Khan.
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court hearing the case against seven suspects, including Lashkar-e-Tayiba operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, who were arrested for their involvement in the Mumbai attacks, was on Saturday postponed till October 3 as the judge conducting the trial was on leave. Judge Baqir Ali Rana of the anti-terrorism court No 2 is conducting the trial of the seven suspects within high-security Adiala Jail in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
Lashkar-e-Tayiba operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, one of seven suspects facing trial in connection with the Mumbai terror attacks, filed an application , on Wednesday, seeking the transfer of his case from Rawalpindi to Lahore due to a purported threat to his life.
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan conducting the trial of seven suspects linked with the Mumbai terror attacks, including Lashkar-e-Tayiba operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, on Saturday adjourned the hearing till September 26.
The government and people of Pakistan extend their 'heartfelt condolences' to Vajpayee's family and to the government and people of India, the spokesman said.
In a significant ruling that could affect the trial of seven suspects charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks in Pakistan, a bench of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday ruled that the confessional statement of Ajmal Amir Kasab could not be used against the accused.
A Pakistani anti-terror court adjourned till August 29 the trial of five Lashkar-e-Tayiba operatives, including its operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, accused of involvement in the Mumbai attacks.
Lashkar-e-Tayiba operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, one the seven Pakistani nationals accused of planning and abetting the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, was granted bail on Thursday by the anti-terrorism court in the country.
The new Pakistani judge, hearing the Mumbai terror attacks case, on Monday adjourned till October 31 the trial of the seven suspects, including Lashker-e-Tayiba operative Zakiur Lakhvi.Judge Malik Muhammad Akram Awan of the anti-terror court, who was appointed last week to conduct the in-camera trial, began hearing the case today morning at the high-security Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.Awan replaced Judge Baqir Ali Rana, who had requested to be taken off the case.
In a possible setback to the trial of the seven suspects arrested by the Pakistan police for their involvement in the terror attack on Mumbai, the judge hearing the case has said he can no longer continue with the proceedings. Citing 'unavoidable reasons', Judge Baqir Ali Rana of the anti-terrorism court, who has been conducting the trial within the high-security Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, has requested the Lahore High Court to excuse him from hearing the case.
Sharif said that Khan's position was much weaker this time than in 2013 when last general elections were held.
'He has a splendid opportunity to capitalise on the CPEC and turn the economy around decisively, putting Pakistan firmly on a higher growth trajectory.' 'Indeed, under the Imran-Bajwa dispensation, there has been a noticeable whittling down of support to militant groups,' points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The United Nations on Monday closed all its offices across Pakistan after a suicide attack on a World Food Programme office in the heart of the federal capital killed four persons, including an Iraqi national. UN spokesperson Ishrat Rizvi had told reporters that all UN offices in Islamabad and the nearby garrison city of Rawalpindi had been closed. Rizvi said the UN will attempt to continue its operations, including humanitarian relief programmes.
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, 68, and his daughter Maryam, 44, are serving jail terms of 10-years and seven years respectively in Adiala jail in Rawalpindi, after an accountability court convicted them on July 6 over the family's ownership of four luxury flats in London.
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