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Pakistan court has filed charges against the accused behind the Mumbai attacks.
Nov 26th
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has finally declared Lashkar-e-Taiyba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi,as the mastermind behind the Mumbai attack a day before its 26/11 anniversary.And the court formally charged seven men suspects, including Lakhvi, with planning and helping execute the Mumbai attacks.
The court also declared 16 people, as proclaimed offenders including the only surviving terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab. He was captured alive during the 26/11 strikes. And now he in Mumbai jail .The crew members of the two boats that ferried the 10 attackers to Mumbai are among them, sources said.
Anti-terrorism court Judge Malik Muhammad Akram Awan, who is conducting the trial at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi for security reasons, framed the chargesheet against Lakhvi, Zarar Shah, Abu al-Qama, Hamad Amin Sadiq, Shahid Jamil Riaz, Jamil Ahmed and Younas Anjum.
Pakistan court was registered case against seven accused in February, but trial has moved slowly. Its last protest was voiced last week after India’s repeated frustration over the non seriousness of Pakistan in bringing to book the perpetrators of the 26/11 attacks.
The court also rejected the bail pleas of some of the accused. Their lawyers Shahbaz Rajput said all seven pleaded not guilty and alsi said that the charge taken against the accused were without any powerful evidence.
Pakistani PM: Condition on Indian border weak
Jan 10th
Islamabad: Yousaf Raza Gilani Pakistani Prime Minister said on Friday the condition was “fragile” on the border with India, and regretted the deferral of peace meeting following the militant attacks in Mumbai in November.
Gilani’s comments came a day later than the Government confirmed that the single surviving gunman from the attack that killed 179 people in India’s monetary capital was a Pakistani.
The Prime Minister sacked his national defense consultant on Thursday for disclosing this before consulting him.
“The situation on our eastern border has once again become very fragile,” Gilani told a discussion group in Islamabad.
While tensions have run high among the nuclear-armed neighbors, there has been no symbol of a troop build-up by any side, and analysts say probability of India resorting to military act have receded.
Pakistani officials have warned that if there was any threat of a argument with India it would switch military from the western border with Afghanistan, where they are fighting pro-Taliban and al Qaeda militants.
Any such act would weaken inward US president Barack Obama’s preparation to nearly double the number of US troops in Afghanistan as part of a rush plan to suppress the Taliban mutiny.
Dell Dailey, the State Department’s counter terrorism coordinator, told reporters in Washington on Tuesday that the United States had not seen any stir of Pakistanis forces from western border regions to the east “in any degree that’s measurable”.
He said Pakistan stimulated troops to the eastern border in 2002, when it went to the point of a fourth battle with India.
“We do not want that to happen again and we’ll do as much as we can to prevent it,” Dailey said.
Burney: Kasab’s parents missing
Jan 9th
Foremost Pakistani rights activist Ansar Burney on Thursday claimed that the parents of Ajmal Amir Kasab, lone terrorist arrested by Indian authorities for the Mumbai attacks, were mislaid from their home in Faridkot village in Punjab district.
The ex- human rights minister said a squad from the Ansar Burney Trust lately visited Faridkot and found that Kasab’s parents were mislaid from the village.
“Where are the parents of Ajmal Kasab and who took them out from the village? This is another question that would create further doubts,” said Burney. He added that the squad from his Trust had confirmed that Kasab is a Pakistani national.
After weeks of refutation, the Pakistan Government on Wednesday recognized that a beginning inquiry by its security agencies had established that Kasab is a Pakistani national.
But, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani sacked National Security consultant Mahmud Ali Durrani for speaking to the domestic and international media on the topic.
Burney said the dismissal of Durrani for making a declaration concerning Kasab had “created further doubts” about participation of the Pakistan government and “some Pakistani organisations” in the Mumbai attacks.
“Durrani was sacked because he spoke the truth and admitted that some of the organisations from Pakistan are involved,” Burney assumed.
Burney criticized the handling of the situation by the President and Prime Minister. “How is the world going to believe our government any more after they take such steps?” he asked, referring to the sacking of Durrani and the “mishandling” of the issue of Kasab’s nationality.
He also demanded resignation of interior ministry chief Rehman Malik, who he suspected had “mishandled” the issue of Kasab’s nationality and formed more troubles for Pakistan.
