Mumbai Terrorist Attack-News stories and timeline

[krisna]

Arnab is asking where is the Queue theory of deciding on mercy petition and hanging Kasab first , even before Afzal Guru who is waiting his Just desert and feeding on Indian Tax payers money.

good this swine got hanged, will be cremated -- hence the 72 virgins will get ash to play with not his body. *&^%$

IIRC the congi minsters were saying the same as pointed by Arnab-- about the queue system. kasab is something about 20+ in the queue. will take sometime for him to reach the president.
bloody liars. playing with vote banks no doubt.


expect some more action with nearing elections depending on the ground support for thier votes. more news to follow with IB and other agencies doing their jobs for congis.

[Sushupti]

South Asian gangs of gunmen shocked at Kasab's hanging.

http://dawn.com/2012/11/21/let-says-kas ... p-shocked/

[Rangudu]

Watch for DDM/Sickular 'intellectuals' to come out and say '26/11 chapter is closed, let's make piss with TSP'.

I for one feel not even an ounce of satisfaction with this, as long as the likes of Hafiz Saeed, Shuja Pasha, Nadeem Taj etc. are still breathing air instead of dirt.

Never forget, never forgive and never surrender!

[rsingh]

In civilized world we do not make video of act of taking life. There were enough responsible persons to witness the act. We are not barbaric tribe.

[chaanakya]

You are right. The Law does not prescribe taking either photo or video during or after execution. Permitted set of officers and orther experts ( for research purpoe) witness it and only Jail Supdt and Executive Magistrate and Medical doctors certify and ttest it and return the warrant to the Court which issued it. We follow the law to the letter in such cases.

[SwamyG]

The political ramifications: http://gulfnews.com/opinions/columnists ... -1.1108269

The same Home Ministry on whose advice Mukherjee rejected Kasab’s mercy petition, had last year recommended that Guru be hanged. The President’s Office is yet to clear Guru’s file. The government is yet to explain why it fast-tracked Kasab’s case while sitting on other mercy petitions. Mukherjee rejected Kasab’s plea on November 5 and the hanging took place just 16 days later.

1. The hanging was carried out exactly a week before the fourth anniversary of the Mumbai attacks, an emotional surcharged occasion for the entire nation, especially the family members of those killed by the terrorists. The hanging brings a sense of closure for them and for the restless nation that was getting increasingly frustrated over the government’s perceived weakness in taking tough decisions.
The Congress party can now take full credit for executing a marauding terrorist and fulfilling the wishes of Indians who sarcastically suggested mosquitoes who inflicted dengue pain on Kasab be rewarded as the government was busy feeding him biryani in Mumbai’s Arthur Road jail.

2. The execution was carried out just a day before the start of the winter session of Parliament where the opposition is planning to bring a no-confidence motion against the government on the issue of Foreign Direct Investment in the retail sector. The hanging can be seen as an attempt by the government to rob the opposition of a chance to put it on the mat.
The hanging satisfies the collective conscience of Indians and his death will dominate the national narrative for the next few weeks, or at least till the fourth anniversary of Mumbai attacks on November 28.

3. The execution was carried out just two days after the cremation of firebrand Hindutva leader Bala Saheb Thackeray, a strong votary of Kasab’s execution. The widow of Mumbai police hero Hemant Karkare, killed by Kasab’s fellow terrorists, had demanded that Kasab be given a chance to reform himself and should be let off on humanitarian grounds. Thackeray had angrily rejected her suggestion and demanded a swift execution. The Congress government’s decision to hang him can be seen as a clever ploy to silence such critics.

4. The execution comes weeks before the high-stake elections in Gujarat that goes to polls early next month. Gujarat Chief Minister and Hindutva mascot Narendra Modi is widely expected to win a third time and catapult himself to the central stage in New Delhi. Modi is seen by a large number of Indians as the only leader capable of taking a tough line on issues of national security.
By hanging Kasab, the Sonia Gandhi-led Congress has sent out a signal that it is capable of taking tough decisions — on national security as well as on the economic front. India doesn’t need a Modi to defend its honour, the Congress might well argue.

5. The Congress-led governments in New Delhi and in Mumbai have shown remarkable political deftness in recent days.
In Mumbai, it accorded the honour of a state funeral to Thackeray, a known violator of the Indian Constitution. The state funeral achieved two objectives: appeased the Hindutva constituency and ensured a peaceful funeral for Thackeray who lorded over an army of rowdy Shiv Sainiks.

Yesterday, by executing a terrorist, it fulfilled a long-pending wish of both the Hindutva and non-Hindutva constituencies.

[kish]

Kasab's home village angry, lashes out at India
Farmers in the village of the Pakistani gunman executed Wednesday for the 2008 Mumbai massacre lashed out at India and hounded out journalists who asked about their notorious son.

"India is Pakistan's enemy and wants to weaken our country. We have no interest whatsoever in what India did with Kasab," he added.

"This is a conspiracy against Pakistan. India deliberately implicated Pakistan to get it declared a terrorist state," said landlord Muhammad Zaman, 50.

Ghulab Khan, 70 and unemployed, suggested Pakistan should respond tit-for-tat. "Pakistan should also hang an Indian incarcerated in a Pakistani jail," he told AFP.

This one is a keeper

Kasab ki Aunt

This news is hell for us," Shahnaz Sughra, Kasab's aunt, told Reuters by phone. "...Even if he did something wrong, we just want his body. Even if he did something wrong, I am proud that he taught the enemy a lesson in their own country.

WKKs want more 'people to people' contact and was recently endorsed by Bihar chief minister after a visit to pigistan.

These news reports are testament to how peaceful pigistanis are.

Indians may love to have 'people to people' with pigistanis, but the reverse will never be true. WKKs has to come out of their delusion and accept the fact.

[RamaY]

By hanging Kasab, the Sonia Gandhi-led Congress has sent out a signal that it is capable of taking tough decisions — on national security as well as on the economic front. India doesn’t need a Modi to defend its honour, the Congress might well argue.

If any Indian believes this nonsense that person is a Dhimmi for sure.

1. Kasab was caught by a brave police officer Constable Tukaram Ombale.
2. A two-judge bench of Justices Aftab Alam and CK Prasad gave Kasab death penalty
3. An unknown hangman sent Kasab to his 72

What did Sonia Gandhi led Congress do in this process and what tough decisions it took.

[jash_p]

It defy all the logic !!! Need some research why still no WKKs, Arundhatibanu bin Roy, Amnesty International, Human right watch groups are not condeming Terrorist Government of India for hanging innocent babe in the wood, toy gun totting Kasab!!!
(or are they still bussy in verbal mob lynching terrorist Natanyahu and Isreal for killing innocent Hammas freedom fighters?)

Note: They even did not allow to perform his last rite of 72s and did not hand his body to his parent.

[JwalaMukhi]

It defy all the logic !!! Need some research why still no WKKs, Arundhatibanu bin Roy, Amnesty International, Human right watch groups are not condeming Terrorist Government of India for hanging innocent babe in the wood, toy gun totting Kasab!!!

This is a golden opportunity for all the WKKs, Abin roys, and other hooman rite groups to settle down in pakistan and ensure no further innocent babe like the piglet is misled. This is grand opportunity to get down in the trenches and adopt "terrorists" while they are in formation or already formed and show them the correct way! Their services are badly needed in pakistan. The question is will they raise to occasion and get down to work in pakistan, instead of shedding crocodile tears. "Jihadis are people too" and they need to be adopted in local environs where they are bred.

[brihaspati]

Amrutha Gayatri writes
http://www.ibtimes.com/kasabs-hanging-p ... dia-894420

In India’s political set-up where many of the regional parties favor capital punishment, including BJP and several Hindu nationalist parties, abolishing the death penalty could be tricky. Delaying executions with convicts rotting in prison, uncertain of what to expect, seems an easy and sometimes the most convenient option, as was the case with Kasab.

Apart from making BJP a "regional party" and "Hindu nationalist party", congrez is exempted from wanting "death penalty".

But Jawharlal Nehru wrote this in jail - in 1934:

“At one time, I was strongly opposed to death penalty, and in, theory, my opposition still continues. But I have come to realise that there are far worse things than death, and if the choice had to be made, and I was given it, I would probably accept a death sentence rather than of imprisonment of life. But I would not like to be hung. I would prefer being shot or guillotined, or even electrocuted; most of all other methods, I would like to be given, as Socrates was of old (era ), the cup of poison which would send me to sleep from where there was no awaking. This last method seems to me by far the most civilized and humane. But in India we favour hanging. It is probably easier to sentence a man to death than to see the sentence carried out. And yet even sensitive people get used to this painful sight. With all my repugnance for executions, I find that some method of eliminating utterly undesirable human beings will have to be adopted and used with discretion.”

In fact JLN never opposed, intervened against "death penalty" in the debates at the Constituent Assembly. He dismissed [had dismiised on his advice] the Kerala gov following the 1957 crisis - where EMS had among many other "reforms", also suggested commuting death sentences. The supposedly "socialist" PM at Delhi - who is portrayed as the "socialist" slower of economy, actually intervened to prevent nationalization of foreign owned plantations and commutation of death sentences by the communist gov.

[partha]

Your wait is over. Shivam Vij at rediff just published this deplorable bile where he cries for Kasab ....

Now I shall wait for the "Letters to the Editor" in "The Hindu" tomorrow. That should make me content . I guess the stock letter writers to Hindu are now busy penning their letters .

There have been allegations that some of the letters are written by N Ram himself.

[jash_p]

I am agrreing with Leftist, WKK ,AI,human wright type people that GOI did injustice to Kasab by hanging. I will give my theory later on as I have to leav now.

[Anujan]

I am against death penalty under all circumstances. Including kasab's conviction for waging war against India. In fact I strongly feel instead of shooting them, India should have arrested the kargil intruders and given them life imprisonment. They were just poor people doing their job and following orders.

[krisna]

I am against death penalty under all circumstances. Including kasab's conviction for waging war against India. In fact I strongly feel instead of shooting them, India should have arrested the kargil intruders and given them life imprisonment. They were just poor people doing their job and following orders.

Ideal world I do agree, but terrorists pigs with fossilised brains it is better to remove as many as possible.
We abhor killings/hangings etc but do the terrorists abhor it.
That is the question to be asked. not abolition of death penalty at present times.

corollary but not exact-- bacteria attack a human and cause pneumonia. One can say poor bacteria, is so small, weak -- can attack only a small part of human body. dont treat with antibiotics.
The antibiotics will kill all bacteria indiscriminately-- even good ones. It will also cause bacterial antibiotic resistance and cause more harm.
Meanwhile the human being dies.

The human being here is India and its people.

[krisna]

(Left to right) Central railway announcer Vishnu Zende, whose presence of mind saved lives of several lives, Mumbai Mirror photographer Sebastian D'souza who clicked Kasab's picture, Devika Rotawan -- the girl who first identified recognised Kasab and former Director General of police P S Pasricha at a public function.

from rediff

[nachiket]

I am against death penalty under all circumstances. Including kasab's conviction for waging war against India. In fact I strongly feel instead of shooting them, India should have arrested the kargil intruders and given them life imprisonment. They were just poor people doing their job and following orders.

Ideal world I do agree, but terrorists pigs with fossilised brains it is better to remove as many as possible.
We abhor killings/hangings etc but do the terrorists abhor it.
That is the question to be asked. not abolition of death penalty at present times.....

I think Anujanullah was being sarcastic onlee.

[SSridhar]

I want abolition of criminal justice system. Any punishment for any crime is a violation of human rights.

[abhishek_sharma]

4-year wait comes to an end

Kuber crew’s kin can’t rejoice, must ‘move on’

Caution, anger, sympathy in Pakistan

Kasab calm and smiling before being hanged, declared dead at 8 am

The man and his role

A month of secrecy, planning

[sum]

X-post:

Kasab hangs, justice for 26/11 still elusive

In a top secret operation, 25-year-old Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving gunman of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, was hanged in Pune’s Yerwada Central Jail at 7.30 a.m. on Wednesday.

Fifteen minutes later, a terse phone call conveyed to the Maharashtra Home Department that Operation ‘X’ was “successfully completed.” Police sources said Kasab was buried on the jail premises.

The execution comes five days before the fourth anniversary of the attacks that began on November 26, 2008, lasting nearly three days, and took the lives of 166 people. But if his execution brought some measure of closure for the victims’ families, the Lashkar-e-Taiba masterminds of the attack in Pakistan continue to evade justice.

The events that unfolded before the hanging were kept a closely guarded secret too. Jail officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Kasab had offered prayers (namaz) before he was brought to the hangman. The final walk to the gallows in the jail is about 20 feet, and was covered in a minute, the sources said.

Around 10 people, including Jail Superintendent Yogesh Desai, a medical officer from the government-run Sassoon Hospital and an executive magistrate were present for the hanging.

Preparations, including the testing of the strength of the rope and mock hangings, were made a week before.

Mr. Desai told The Hindu that there was no designated hangman and a jail staffer covered Kasab’s head with a customary black hood, then put and tightened the noose around his neck before pulling the lever, making the platform below give away. As per the process, the body was left hanging for half-an-hour, after which the medical officer declared him dead. He was buried before noon.

Official sources said ‘X,’ the codename, was set in motion on November 12, after President Pranab Mukherjee turned down Kasab’s mercy petition on November 5.

Even within the State machinery, very few people knew about the operation, right from setting the date for the execution to bringing Kasab to Pune. It was reportedly overseen by Special Inspector-General (Law and Order) Deven Bharti and 16 handpicked officers, including Joint commissioner of Mumbai Police (Crime) Himanshu Roy and Inspector-General (Prisons) Meeran Chaddha Borwankar.

Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde signed the file and the communication reached the State government by November 8. The process was set in motion soon after. “Except Mr. Bharti’s cell phone, the devices of the other 16 officers were switched off,” a top official told The Hindu.

Kasab was shifted from Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail to Pune on November 19. Officials said he was taken on a special flight late at night and whisked off to the Yerwada jail. “He was escorted by senior officers of the Crime Branch, commandos of the Quick Response Team and officers of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police. The team reached the jail in the early hours of Monday morning,” said the official. Few jail officials were aware of the identity of the prisoner.

True cloak and dagger stuff here!

[jash_p]

I posted before
I am agrreing with Leftist, WKK ,AI,human wright type people that GOI did injustice to Kasab by hanging. I will give my theory later on as I have to leav now.

Kasab was jehadist and follows sharia rule. His death should be as Tali-pakis practice. First sodomise by animals, then tourcher him like Saurabh Kalia, that he asked for death. Then cut small piece by piece till he die, then only he gets his 72s. While GOI did him injustice by hanging, gave peaceful death and not follow his religious belief and deny him 72s.

[Sachin]

when the equally guilty murderers of Rajiv G and parliament attack terrorist Afzal G have been enjoying state hospitality for years!

I tend to agree with you. Infact in the case of Perarivalan and Chinna Santhan at vellore jail, they went on an appeal which was accepted by the courts. That was when the Supreme Court of India had upheld the death sentence. If this becomes a precedence, a death row convict can give appeal after appeal until he dies or a natural death or loses his patience and decides to face the gallows. Kasab should have got hanged and so should be these LTTE folks (especially folks like Chinna Santhan who is still yearning for the Ealam).

BTW, as per 'The Hindu' reports that Kasab walked to the gallows silently. He neither said the words attributed to him, nor did he ask about his mother.
“His eyes stayed downcast, and he didn’t say a word,” the official said, “he didn’t shout or struggle and the end came quickly.” “I’ve seen lots of colourful stories in the media today [on Wednesday] about his remembering his mother and praying for forgiveness,” the official added. “I wish they were true, because we Indians love a good tearjerker, but the fact is he didn’t say one single word.”

BTW, Human Right champions have started their hollering. Some one was asking where they were. Well here they are..
‘Kasab’s execution a dangerous precedent’

Human rights groups slam government

[Gagan]

Geo TV report on Kasab's hanging. X-post from Kasab's hanging thread
Aaj Kamran Ke Saath 21st Nov 2012

[youtube]lViZ8MvInMQ&start=1200[/youtube]
Video will start at 20 minutes. But the begining of the news clip is also interesting.

[Gagan]

What happened to the bodies of the remaining 9?

IIRC these guys had been kept on ice.
Local muslims had refused them burial in any of their graveyards.
Were they cremated later by Maha govt?

[sum]

^^ They were buried long back in another "secret operation" in a unmarked place within a year of 26/11.

Was reported in DDM and BRF also!

State govt quietly buried nine 26/11 terrorists in January

The Maharashtra police secretly buried in January the bodies of nine Lashkar-e-Toiba gunmen from Pakistan who attacked the city on 26/11.

Disclosing this today, Home Minister R R Patil told the Maharashtra legislative council that the bodies were buried in a “secret mission”. He said this in response to queries on the expenditure that was being incurred by the state to preserve the bodies at the J J Hospital in Mumbai.

“Thirty officials were involved in the mission to dig and bury the bodies. The nine bodies were buried in January. Nobody knew about it except these officials. I wanted to see if the police can keep a secret,” said Patil. “There is not a single body in the mortuary now.”

“We kept the cold room meters on and asked officials to maintain security at the hospital as we did not want anyone to know about the burial,” he said.

“I want to tell the Pakistan Prime Minister that if he cannot prevent terror attacks on India... we will not let them escape and we will bury them in this land,” said Patil.

[Tamang]

The reason why it was possible to hang Kasab

Only a handful knew about Operation X

Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde, among the first to break the news of the hanging, even went to the extent of saying that so secret was the operation, that even Prime Minister Manmohan Singh learnt of it from television.

[svinayak]

Check this article by FT.
They want to give advice to Indians.
Same old patronizing attitude

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ac808354-349c ... z2CyAJt82i

Can India be governed as a democracy?
By Victor Mallet in Delhi
Even a hanging such as this was only ever going to concentrate minds for a day. India’s surprise execution on Wednesday of Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the Pakistani gunman captured during the Mumbai terror attack four years ago, enraptured India and wholly overshadowed an opposition rally against the government.

On Thursday, however, it was back to business as usual in Indian politics. Members of parliament – both opponents and supporters of the Congress-led coalition – shouted their protests at the government’s economic reform agenda, noisily aired parochial grievances and caused chaos at the opening of the winter session of parliament, forcing repeated adjournments. Nothing was achieved.
India’s first use of the death penalty in eight years, in other words, had merely postponed for 24 hours the need to answer the question that haunts foreign investors and much of the Indian middle class: can the country be governed effectively and remain the world’s biggest democracy?

“The Indian state has declined into a state of paralysis. Governance has become a serious problem and corruption is pervasive,” writes Gurcharan Das, former chief executive of Procter & Gamble India, in his book India Grows at Night. (The point about the night is that the government is asleep.) “India has law and China has order, but a successful nation needs both.”

It can legitimately be asked whether India even has the necessary laws. The inability of Manmohan Singh’s government to enact essential legislation is a grave concern for businesses awaiting clarity on everything from land acquisition and taxes to foreign investment and competition policy.

The previous, “monsoon” session of parliament was so disrupted by the Hindu nationalist opposition Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) that Mr Singh complained of a “negation of democracy”. Nomura analysts have labelled that sitting a “washout” and lament the risk that the winter session could go the same way.

As Jagdish Bhagwati, the veteran, pro-reform economist, put it in New Delhi this week: “The unhappiness which our investors have is just boiling over with the lack of progress.”

The main reason for the present logjam in Indian lawmaking is the BJP’s desire to push the Congress party out of power by stripping it of its allies and forcing an early general election, still 18 months away in the normal course of events.

To achieve this, the BJP is trying – somewhat unconvincingly, given its own record of liberal economic reforms – to stoke public outrage over the permission granted to foreign investors since September to own 51 per cent stakes in supermarkets and department stores in those states where the authorities agree.

For those who seek to govern India’s 1.2bn people, a more fundamental problem than the rivalry between Congress and the BJP is the change in the balance of power between the centre and the states since independence in 1947.

Congress dominated Indian politics from the start – under Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister, and then under his descendants – but was eventually matched and temporarily overtaken by the BJP.

But instead of developing a stable two-party system, India has witnessed the rapid growth of regional parties, whose populist leaders wrest financial and political concessions from reluctant BJP or Congress prime ministers in exchange for supporting whatever unwieldy coalition they are running at the time. Uttar Pradesh may be poor, but it elects 80 of the 545 MPs in the lower house and the parties that succeed there wield national power as well.

Indians muse on the possibility of a future national prime minister from one of the regional parties, leading a “third front” government that would include neither Congress nor the BJP.

It is admirable that no one can say with confidence who might be the next prime minister. Wrangling in public is more defensible than the secretive process by which the Chinese Communist party has just chosen the country’s new leaders.

India’s complicated political struggle also makes good television. But the stormy and unproductive opening of parliament in New Delhi on Thursday suggests it is not the ideal way to make good laws or policies.

[Sachin]

x-post from "Internal Security" Thread...
In the mean while The Hindu has started going the usual route. Of completely ignoring the crime of murdering numerous innocent people at Mumbai, while focusing on technicalities and how lose of life gets celebrated/mourned.

An act of constitutional impropriety
The above article would be of importance for people interested in law (chaanakya??). The author is talking about another judicial review option which seems to be available !!?? And Kasab denied that chance. Is this is the same funda which was used to delay the execution of the LTTE terrorists in Tamil Nadu? A High court now hearing the whole thing again, and I guess with rights to appeal at Supreme Court open as well??

The comments are worth reading too. At least some people have started calling the bluff .

Two deaths and a common chorus
This article is a bit more entertaining. It is all about people crying/mourning Bal Thackeray's death, while they celebrated Kasab's hanging. BTW, this comes from a 'Gandhi' who was once the Governor of West Bengal. BTW, I am yet to figure out how a person can be forced to 'mourn'. In Bal Thackeray's case yes there was a state wide bandh and people would have been forced to stay at home. That happens in each and every bandh all across the country. In commie land Kerala, there was one yesterday because one commie with a loose and vitriolic tongue was arrested. There again people were forced to shut shops, stop moving on the roads and were forced to stay put at home. Guess Mr.'Gandhi' did not notice that. Or else I would wait for him to come up with some evidence which says Shiv Sainiks forced people out from their homes and made them wait at roads and foot paths, and thrashed a few so that they would start crying loudly .

[SSridhar]

The comments are worth reading too. At least some people have started calling the bluff

I am surprised that The Hindu even published them. Overwhelmingly, they are critical of that op-ed which, of course, toes the newspaper's covert & overt policies.

[ramana]

There was a report about a Pak soldier hanged for shooting another soldier.
Soon after kasab was hanged as Pak cannot say a word.

[Amber G.]

NY times has this article, worth reading...
Why Are Few Terrorists Executed in India?

India has faced terrorism for more than the last five decades, practically since the country was created. The northeast states, central and east India, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir have been particularly affected, but almost no state has been free from terror incidents in that time. At least 90,000 people have lost their lives in India in terrorism-related incidents.

Still, the number of convictions for terrorism is low, and executions of people found guilty of terrorism even rarer. Before Wednesday’s hanging of Ajmal Kasab, the last executions for terrorism were the hangings of Sukhdev Singh Sukha and Harjinder Singh Jinda in 1992 and Maqbool Bhatt in 1984. Some security experts also include the 1989 hangings of Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh, who were convicted for their roles in the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

India Ink spoke to several security experts and former law enforcement officials about the situation, and why even people given death sentences are not often executed. Here’s what they had to say:...
<worth reading these ...>

[member_23677]

I posted before
I am agrreing with Leftist, WKK ,AI,human wright type people that GOI did injustice to Kasab by hanging. I will give my theory later on as I have to leav now.

Kasab was jehadist and follows sharia rule. His death should be as Tali-pakis practice. First sodomise by animals, then tourcher him like Saurabh Kalia, that he asked for death. Then cut small piece by piece till he die, then only he gets his 72s. While GOI did him injustice by hanging, gave peaceful death and not follow his religious belief and deny him 72s.

I have a better option, gather Mumbai's public, publicly display this piglet with acid bottles, knives, kerosene and gun as options in which the public can play with this piglet and ultimately BBQ the piglet with salt and pepper.A just way for piglets like him and others.

[abhishek_sharma]

Day after: Some detail, much debate

'Triumphant' Pakistanis highlight conspiracy theory: Ajmal Kasab died of dengue, link to Osama

‘Riddance from evil’, ‘a milestone’: India’s Urdu press is all praise

[member_23677]

I don't understand the logic of posting paki links and paki side of story.. who cares? what is the need to legitimize and give sane voice to these butthurt pigets?

[abhishek_sharma]

It has already been published in an Indian newspaper. Moreover, the aim is to collect/share information. Whether one chooses to believe it or not depends on the wisdom of the reader.

[abhishek_sharma]

Hafiz Saeed offers funeral prayers for Ajmal Kasab

[Anujan]

Today is the Anniversary of Mumbai attacks. We mourn our dead and express gratitude to members of armed forces and the police who bravely fought and sacrificed so much. Also our gratitude for our investigative agencies, prosecutors and judges for delivering justice.

[SSridhar]

India asked to allow a second judicial commission from Pakistan

Pakistan has requested India to allow another judicial commission to visit the neighbouring country to cross-examine the key witnesses in the Mumbai attacks’ case and accelerate the prosecution of the Pakistani suspects.

Pakistan has recently sent the terms of reference for the commission’s visit to India, Interior Ministry sources said. Earlier, the trial court in Rawalpindi had rejected the findings of the first judicial commission that visited Mumbai in March this year as it was not allowed to cross-examine the witnesses and asked the commission to visit India again. The commission had only recorded the statements of the witnesses and could not question them. The witnesses that the second Pakistani judicial commission wants to cross-examine include the magistrate who recorded the confessional statement of Ajmal Kasab.

See here for a chronology of court drama in Pakistan

[ramana]

What's the point? Kasab was hanged. Rest will be 72ed.

[Lalmohan]

maybe they are going to seek asylum?