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ramana wrote:Is lawyer Kazmi's contention that Kasab should be kept in the dark about his country's decisions about him?
Ramana, I think what Kazimi is saying is that his client has been banned from newspapers, TV, Internet, and even meeting his lawyer and hence he could have been supplied this information only clandestinely which is expressly against court orders.
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Kasab's confession
In view of the communally sensitive nature of Ajmal’s statements, judge M.L. Tahaliyani passed an order banning the publication and broadcast of Ajmal’s statement recorded on Tuesday by any media or person,
This is why people in India do not realize the full evil nature of Pakistan. Why should these portions be edited out especially when they come from Pakistanis ?
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SSridhar wrote:Kasab's confession
In view of the communally sensitive nature of Ajmal’s statements, judge M.L. Tahaliyani passed an order banning the publication and broadcast of Ajmal’s statement recorded on Tuesday by any media or person,
This is why people in India do not realize the full evil nature of Pakistan. Why should these portions be edited out especially when they come from Pakistanis ?
From news sources, he described the "political and religious indoctrination" and the "justification for attacking" the people.

The dialogue of "Alhamdulillah ....Inshallah...battle between believers and........Inshallah.......shahadat......jannat...." in the documentary Terror In Mumbai is understood to be similar to Kasab's statement and hence the reason for "not being aired in communal harmony."
Yesterday he described the political and religious indoctrination he said he received from his handlers in Pakistan, but Judge M.L. Tahiliyani issued an order banning journalists from reporting his comments, saying it was not in the interest of communal harmony.

http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Articl ... 3?UserKey=

Indian reporters in the courtroom protested to Judge Tahilyani that Mr. Kasab had not said anything new and noted that parts of his statement covered topics that had already been reported on by a British television documentary. The judge said he would address their concerns later.

http://www.chabad.info/index.php?url=ar ... n&id=15425
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Ajmal's confession will revive Pakistan's demand for extradition
The confession by Ajmal Amir ‘Kasab’ before a court hearing the Mumbai terror strikes case may rekindle demands in Pakistan for his extradition if the statement is included by Pakistani prosecution as evidence against the five suspects who face proceedings here for their alleged involvement in the attacks.
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Thanks SSridhar.

X-posted...
Airavat wrote:
somnath wrote:Good one from Pravin Swami..

So who goofed up? But OT here..
Post the complete rubbish on Intel sharing if you want to know "who goofed up":
On September 18, the CIA delivered the first of two warnings of an impending Lashkar attack on Mumbai. Couched in general terms, it was delivered to India through the Research and Analysis Wing. In response to an Indian request, the CIA delivered further details on September 24, warning expressly that the Lashkar was planning to hit multiple targets including the Taj Mahal Hotel. India’s own intelligence services also warned that an attack was imminent.

Pakistan’s own intelligence services, though, passed on nothing. Either the ISI was not watching the Lashkar or did not stop the operation, undermining Islamabad’s past promises to end anti-India terrorism.
Islamist terror around the world will continue till the Pakistan army exists and is propped up by its 3½ friends. Only when instability engulfs the whole of Pakistan can the rest of the world live in peace.

Now recall MKN resigned but MMS didnt accept it as "he tried his best". So NSA turned a Nelson's eye for greater purpose which backfired.
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Image

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124825760824071667.html


Has anybody seen this #%$@

"We Knocked ... One person opened the door... I told him we have come for jihad.
Therefore he allowed us to enter."
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Court wants Kasab's trial to continue
. . . the special court conducting the 26/11 terror attack trial has refused to deliver a judgment today based on Kasab’s admission of guilt and said the trial will continue.

Special Judge M L Tahilyani has kept Kasab’s statement on record in the case.

In another twist to the Mumbai terror attack trial, defence lawyer Abbas Kazmi on Thursday said he wanted to withdraw from the case. Kazmi told the court his client, Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, had lost faith in him.
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SSridhar wrote:Ajmal's confession will revive Pakistan's demand for extradition
The confession by Ajmal Amir ‘Kasab’ before a court hearing the Mumbai terror strikes case may rekindle demands in Pakistan for his extradition if the statement is included by Pakistani prosecution as evidence against the five suspects who face proceedings here for their alleged involvement in the attacks.
In exchange for dirty dawood?
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SSridhar wrote:Sumeet, GoI will say that Kasab, being a foreign national, the procedure will be simpler.
SSridhar here is something directly from horse mouth. Below is the text version. You can listen to the video as well. Let me know if you think I am correct to assume that after punishment is announced for Kasab, the govt will let it go Afzal guru's way since according to it staying locked in prison on a death row is worse than being hanged.

Expect someone in the next attack for release of these guys.

Video link: http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/97830/bein ... anged.html

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/being-on-dea ... 30-37.html
CNN-IBN: Senior lawyer Harish Salve has told CNN-IBN that even if Kasab is sentenced, it would go the Afzal Guru way. Kasab may not be really hanged.

Chidambaram: That's a charge that's been made ad nauseum. Its been corrected several times. There are 28 cases of death row. Afzal Guru's no is 22. Let's first deal with the case. Remaining at a death row for several years is not a happy situation. In fact, prisoners on death row suffer more than prisoner who's hanged.
BRFites Kasab will be number 29. Many of us will die before he is actually hanged.
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The way I see it Kasab is TSP individual and there are no heartburn takleef if he gets hanged. Afzal Guru is an Indian and there is heartburn if he gets hanged as can be seen by the tardy progress. In fact it can be argued that the other 21 are surviving because he is #22. So that is number doesnt come up.
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kasab is seeking his 72 as soon as possible so he confessed.better punishment for him to keep him alive whole his life in solitary confinement.that way mentally break him.make him mentally wreck whole his life.show his fake hanging as propaganda so as people believe in india and across the border that he is dead there by pre-empting any kandhar type hijacking attempt to get him released.
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ramana wrote:The way I see it Kasab is TSP individual and there are no heartburn takleef if he gets hanged.
Would it not distract from Indian goals of undermining the rationale for Pakistan (and thereby alienating Pakistani leadership from the Pakistani population) by showing how Muslims are second to none in India?
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vera_k wrote:
ramana wrote:The way I see it Kasab is TSP individual and there are no heartburn takleef if he gets hanged.
Would it not distract from Indian goals of undermining the rationale for Pakistan (and thereby alienating Pakistani leadership from the Pakistani population) by showing how Muslims are second to none in India?
Are you sure India has such a goal of alienating Pakistani leadership and its population?
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ravi_ku wrote:Are you sure India has such a goal of alienating Pakistani leadership and its population?
I'm not sure of this. But that would explain the past behavior of Indian governments towards Pakistan.
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Pakistan puts off Mumbai case for month
ISLAMABAD, July 25 (Reuters) - A Pakistani court due to hear the case against five Islamist militants accused of involvement in the attacks that killed 166 people in the Indian city of Mumbai adjourned for a month without charges being read.

India wants forceful action by Pakistan to bring to justice leaders of the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group it says were behind the Nov. 26-29 attacks before formally resuming a peace process that was frozen during the subsequent tensions.

The government's prosecutor, Malik Rab Nawaz Noon, said formal charges against the accused had not yet been framed and Saturday's proceedings ended after some statements were recorded.
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As expected. The Sharm-el-Sheikh is over and Pakistan has got what it wanted. There is no pressure on Pakistan anymore.
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^^^ I for one never expected them to bring this case to trial. if JS/SES is the excuse de jour then c'est la vie, there'll be another excuse tomorrow. the best hope of airing the dirty linen is the continuation of kasab's trial. besides, who is the audience for the satyameva jayate? everyone knows whodunnit and whosponsoredit. does evidence/legal process really matter? I would say no, BUT action does matter. and that is what we are lacking.
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“ISI behind the Mumbai terror attacks” Amir Mir
LAHORE: The 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks were first conceived on the third floor of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) headquarters at the Zero Point in the garrison town of Rawalpindi, claims a recently released book “Investigating the Mumbai Conspiracy”, published by the Delhi-based Pentagon Press, adding that the head of the ISI directorate sits on the third floor of the headquarters, overseeing a shadowy empire of spies and jehadis which today poses a greater threat to global security than the al-Qaeda.
Co-authored by Wilson john, a senior fellow with Observer Research Foundation and Vishwas Kumar, a senior Indian journalist with special interest in crime and terrorism, states that a highly classified operation like Mumbai could not have been shared among more than four people would have known about the plan besides the Chief of Army Staff, who at the time of the planning was President General Pervez Musharraf. “The DG ISI was Lt General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani. Among General Kayani’s close confidants were four Major Generals — Sikander Afzal, Asif Akhtar, Muhammad Mustafa and Tahir Mahmood — all of whom played major roles behind 26/11”.

The book adds: “Akhtar headed ISI’s Operations Wing which handled terrorist groups operating in Jammu & Kashmir and other parts of India. Afzal was the Deputy Director General External and headed all sections which dealt with terrorist groups and India. One of his close confidants was Brigadier Riazullah Khan Chibb, one of the key masterminds of the Mumbai attack. Mustafa was in charge of the Evaluation wing and Tahir Mahmood was General Officer Commanding. Special Services Group (SSG), which sometimes acted as the armed wing of the intelligence agency. Tahir Mahmood, as the Brigade commander of Brigade 62 at Skardu, had launched terrorists from LeT and other Army supported groups across Indian territory to camouflage the movement of regular troops.

The book claims that a whole lot of homework had gone into before the Pakistani jehadi Generals laid out the plan for the Mumbai attacks. “They knew which terrorist group they could rely on to carry out the task. They had notes on previous attacks, the modus operandi used, the local support network and they knew the names of Brigadiers who could control the operation through satellite phones. According to the book, three retired Pakistan Army Brigadiers who had played a key role in the Mumbai terror attacks are Riazullah Khan Chibb, Ijaz Shah and Haji.

“Though names of other Brigadiers and other retired officers have time and again emerged during various investigations - Major Wajahatullah and Colonel Kayani - there are fewer details in open source about their past and present activities. There are, however, some details about Shah and Chibb, largely thanks to the emails which former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto wrote before her assassination in 2007. Both Shah and Chibb had retired from ISI a few years ago and have vast experience in running and handling terrorist groups targeting India. They are also confidants of Musharraf”.

“Generally, no serving officer is given control of terrorist operations as the discovery of such links, run the risk of attracting sanctions from international donors. Terrorist operations are always left to the ‘irregulars’. These are retired officers who are reemployed on contracts for specific missions for the Army which can be easily denied. They operate out of private offices in different locations in Pakistan, have access to weapons and equipment and are paid through slush funds maintained by the Inter Services Intelligence”.
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it is so transparent that the 26/11 attacks were directly created to start a Parakram type situation and divert attention from Fak-Ap... who does not get this anymore? Why do we even question if the ISI's finger prints are on this?
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Pakistan desperately wants India to mobilize.
But they don't want and are not in a position to go to war.

India's battle groups are already in striking position, perhaps India should give pakistan what it wants and also do an = = and do what the BRFites want. Mobilize and cross the IB and LOC.
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The book adds: “Akhtar headed ISI’s Operations Wing which handled terrorist groups operating in Jammu & Kashmir and other parts of India. Afzal was the Deputy Director General External and headed all sections which dealt with terrorist groups and India. One of his close confidants was Brigadier Riazullah Khan Chibb, one of the key masterminds of the Mumbai attack. Mustafa was in charge of the Evaluation wing and Tahir Mahmood was General Officer Commanding. Special Services Group (SSG), which sometimes acted as the armed wing of the intelligence agency. Tahir Mahmood, as the Brigade commander of Brigade 62 at Skardu, had launched terrorists from LeT and other Army supported groups across Indian territory to camouflage the movement of regular troops.
So, our agencies have all the info on 26/11 by now? Time to bump off at least a couple of these people to show we mean business.
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Should let India Today invite Mushy to one of their WKK sessions.
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The Pakistani Attorney General says there is no evidence against Hafiz Saeed at all
"The government has the evidence provided by the UN Security Council that can only keep Saeed behind bars for a certain period of time under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) law," said Attorney General Latif Khosa, an aide of President Asif Ali Zardari.

"However, we have no material whatsoever to establish Saeed's direct or indirect link with the Mumbai carnage," Khosa told PTI in an interview.

"India wants us to prosecute him for his involvement in the Mumbai attacks but how could we do so without concrete evidence? Law demands evidence. Let it be very clear to everyone that we are not giving any latitude to Saeed or anyone else," he said.
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This is what IBNLIVE has to say, quoting DAWN onlee!!

:eek:

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/lakhvi-shah- ... 176-2.html
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it is so transparent that the 26/11 attacks were directly created to start a Parakram type situation and divert attention from Fak-Ap... who does not get this anymore? Why do we even question if the ISI's finger prints are on this?
I am still confused about this line of thought... really appreciate someone explaining it to me...

TSP did Mumbai so it can create Op-Parakram so it can divert attention from Fak-Ap.

Let us assume India did a Parakram2
- It will force TSP to move its troops from Fak-Ap area to Indian borders
- That will make whose life difficult? US/NATOs? How? This logic assumes that TSPA is really doing something to control Taliban activity. Is this really the case?
- If the good Taliban (or are they Bad-ones?) are under TSPA control, then they do not need TSPA presence to be accommodating US/NATO to forces
- By definition Bad-Taliban are inimical to TSP, NOT to US/NATO forces. Then who is protecting whose interests?

- What are Indian interests in all this? Isn't it a good option for India to do a Parakram2 and kick some bad ass. It will have three outcomes.
1. Mumbai will be avenged. If we have a strong govt, we might be able to avenge few Kaluchaks as well.
2. Will drain TSPA budget further. If US/NATO want to reimburse TSPA that is even better.
3. It will open up maneuvering space for the bad-Taliban. Few more provinces under their control will kick start the disintegration process.

And our famous chanikyan minds in PMO and MEA couldn't think about this? What a shame...
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Whatever guys.

Try finding any historical resemblance of the following in any period and in any part of the world.

Country A attacks Country B and accepts that it attacked.Country A says that for its own survival and future strategy, it has to attack Country B and there is no way it can survive without attacking Country B. Now Country B appreciates the honesty and resumes the dialogue.

That is the bottomline and we can keep spinning and can continue to defame Chanakya on this forum as much as we can.
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Perhaps there is a country C that pulls the strings and both A and B dance accordingly. They may give up Lakhwi or whoever, but it is not due to sudden eruption of love for India, it is because the country C has put unbearable pressure and country B had to give up something for that pressure to be applied. Country B, on its own, isn't much of a power.
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:)

Even for that try finding any resemblances in history because of some third country, a nation/kingdom parodoned an attacker and on top of that willingly go and talk to the attacker as an equal.

Or is it such a modern thing that happend first time ever?

What is so chanikayan in not telling that we are only doing because of US pressure. What is that this Government will lose by openly admitting that India is desperately trying to be in good books of US (come what may). This is a national priority for this government.

I do not think anything will happen except some mujahids getting banned on BR :)
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"Kya baat kartey ho janaab, napunsakta ka tamgha de diya jayega hamko!"
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RamaY - you are right, except for the hidden hand of Unkil that sends foreign secretaries flying to Delhi to 'calm tensions' almost immediately...
any sign of conventional escalation and beyond on the Indo-Pak border gets Unkil in a tizzy. There is a 'genuine' and ernest desire to prevent a nuclear war - just in case that kicks off a few other scenarios - and maintain the sub-conventional sub-critical hostilities that are slightly more manageable

we have to decide if we want to resist that pressure or not
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archan wrote:"Kya baat kartey ho janaab, napunsakta ka tamgha de diya jayega hamko!"

:) mujahids aap ko majhboor karega!! Aaap ko ban karnahi padega - a rule is rule.

Seriously speaking - there is not much that will happen for Indian government if it openly says - Yes we want US and we are for the US and it is in the India interest and that is what we believe. We also want to be part of NATO if US allows. I don't expect any mass movements like those of George Fernandez's youthful days. Atleast MMS can have a greater visibility and openess in the democratic traditions.
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Lalmohan-ji,

- If unkil is so worried about Paki-nukes (or nuke-wars for that matter), then why is he supporting their presence there in paki-land? Does it mean he doesn't have direct control over them? Then unkil should be more worried about those paki-nukes than India. It will be in the best interests of India to call TSPian-nuke-bluff.
- If unkil indeed have control over paki-nukes and using them to influence India to his interests, then unkil is a direct enemy to Indian interests. While GOI may not be able to call someone its public enemy, then it should do everything to f*ck unkil’s interests wherever possible.

This all assumes that there are real nukes in the first place. I thought we proved it wrong already on BRF.

Either way IMVHO, the sooner India calls paki-nuke-bluff the better for long-term Indian interests.

The only chanikyan move I can see in all this is; somehow our pujyaneeya civilized economistic pradhan mantri knows all and sees all, and is working hand-in-hand with unkil to safe guard TSPian-nuke-bums. Can we be that lucky?
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26/11 attacks: 'Lakhvi, Shah believed to have confessed’

What now? If TSP jails these two characters, we'll be back to the 'piss process'?
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archan wrote:Perhaps there is a country C that pulls the strings and both A and B dance accordingly. They may give up Lakhwi or whoever, but it is not due to sudden eruption of love for India, it is because the country C has put unbearable pressure and country B had to give up something for that pressure to be applied. Country B, on its own, isn't much of a power.
what could be that "Unbearable Pressure?"
* That India will not be given UNSC seat?
* That India will not be allowed to play in Afghanistan?
* That India will not be given POK/NA?
* That India will not be given ... (you fill the dashes)

I thought if C wants B to do something against B's own interests, then the pressure should come in the form of gifts and accommodations. I dont see anything of that sort coming from Unkil.
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Gaps in Pakistan's 26/11 investigation worries India
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. . . the dossier also shows that there are missing links in the evidence against the suspects — notably, material to connect two low-level facilitators of the attack to the Lashkar command chain. . . dossier is devoted to detailing the alleged role of Rahim Yar Khan resident Hammad Amin Sadiq and Bahawalpur-based Shahid Jamil Riaz. . . the dossier does not contain any evidence to link the two men with three senior Lashkar operatives who are also being tried for their role in the attacks.

. . . the dossier is silent on who these financiers were and what their connections with the higher leadership of the Lashkar might have been. There is no word either on whose authority the funds were transferred to the accounts. . . neither the source of the funds, nor the individual who ordered him to make the payment, has been identified.

Pakistan has not so far conducted voice-analysis tests which could conclusively determine if Lakhvi was, indeed, one of the Lashkar operatives who guided the assault team’s operations through a voice-over-internet-protocol connection India’s intelligence services succeeded in intercepting.

No call-data record linking Sadiq and Riaz to the three mid-level commanders — nor any evidence that they were in touch with other Lashkar leaders — appears to have been adduced in evidence.

Pakistani investigators, the dossier shows, have also failed to act against those who trained and equipped the assault team.

None of those involved in training the Lashkar assault team is identified in the dossier, or listed as a proclaimed offender. Nor are those who supplied them weapons, explosives and logistics support.

. . . no word on who operated these facilities, and to whom they reported.

Incredibly, the dossier makes no mention of the basic training of the assault team received at a string of Lashkar facilities, including the organisation’s headquarters at Muridke, a camp at Bhattal, and the massive Shawai Nullah facility at Muzaffarabad, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

Mohammad Ajmal Amir — widely known by the caste-appellation ‘Kasab’, or butcher —provided a graphic account of his training at Lashkar-run camps in Pakistan during a confession made to a Mumbai court earlier this month.
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Indian reply to Pak dossier received: FO
ISLAMABAD: Spokesman Foreign Office of Pakistan has confirmed receipt of Indian replies to the questions regarding Mumbai attacks forwarded by Pakistan.

According to a statement issued here on Saturday, the FO spokesman Abdul Basit said India has handed over the replies to Pakistan High Commission.

He said Indian documents will be handed over to the concerned officials for their examination.
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Lashkar behind 26/11, says U.K. report

LONDON: Holding the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) responsible for the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks, a British parliamentary committee on Sunday said several major terror attacks across the world, including those in London, Madrid, and Bali, had their origins in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
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Pak SC indefinitely delays trial against Hafeez Saeed
Pakistan's Supreme Court has adjourned indefinitely the hearing of petitions challenging the release from detention of banned JuD chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, accused by India of being the mastermind of November 26 Mumbai attacks.

The apex court's direction comes two days after India said there was "enough evidence" to continue investigation against the Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) chief in connection with the 26/11 attacks.

The hearing of two petitions filed by the Federal and Punjab governments had been adjourned indefinitely by the apex court, Saeed's counsel A K Dogar told reporters.

Sources said the move was apparently linked to the resignation of Punjab's Advocate General Raza Farooq on Sunday, who was representing the provincial government in the hearings.

The provincial government sought time from the apex court to appoint a new Advocate General and asked for the hearing to be adjourned, sources said.

Saeed is a 'free' man according to his lawyer A K Dogar. The case hearing was adjourned immediately on being taken up, according to Dogar. The shocking development comes despite India's submission of an additional dossier with evidence of Hafiz Saeed's involvement in 26/11, which was expected to tighten the state's case against him.

Speaking to the media after Monday's hearing, Dogar said, "He will continue as free man, he can do whatever he likes. He is doing his duties at the second most important mosque in the country. I tell the whole country, Saeed opened 160 schools from sources of JuD, 52 madrasaas and 4 universities. I am elated to hear recently that a girl from the JuD Girls' High school, topped the list of all the boards."

Asked about the reports of a fourth dossier that India had provided recently, Dogar said, "Rehman Malik (Pakistani interior minister) who now calls all the shots in the country on these security matters - made a positive statement reported on July 28 - saying 'We have no evidence with us that Hafiz or JuD is in any manner connected with Mumbai attacks.'"

India responded to the latest queries from Pakistan on Saturday (August 1) over 26/11 by sending certified copies of Lashkar terrorist Ajmal Kasab’s confession and interrogation reports of LeT operatives Fahim Ansari and Sahabuddin Ahmed as part of a seven-page response. The communication is said to have sufficient evidence - as home minister P Chidambaram said this week - for Pakistan to proceed against the Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed.

The JuD, the politico-religious outfit guiding LeT, can be charged for the Mumbai attacks if Pakistan really wants to.
Pak has enough evidence to prosecute Hafeez Saeed: SM Krishna
"India has provided all the evidence through our dossiers.... We have provided dossiers on March 5 and 13, May 20, June 9 and August one and I don't know what more do they want," he told reporters here.

"If they (Pakistan) have the willingness, basic conviction than they should go after those who engineered the heinous attacks on India, on Mumbai," he said.

Mr. Krishna said "whatever we have provided, according to our assessment, that is evidence enough to punish them and Saeed is one of those who is the main brain behind the attacks."

He pointed out that India had fulfilled its part of the obligation to punish those behind the attacks "and it is for Pakistan to act".

To a question, he said "it certainly is a test of patience of India."
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Another narrative of Mumbai Carnage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfEaSl_3 ... annel_page

It would be better for the MMS government to have something to show on 26 November 2009 (after theone year of incident), to the people of India!! :(
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anandsgh wrote: It would be better for the MMS government to have something to show on 26 November 2009 (after theone year of incident), to the people of India!! :(
Do the voters even care?
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