Mumbai attacks suspect retracts confession
A Pakistani man accused of being one of the 10 militants who attacked Mumbai last year retracted his earlier confession on Friday.
A Pakistani man accused of being one of the 10 militants who attacked Mumbai last year retracted his earlier confession on Friday.
The trial of a gunman from the Mumbai attacks was adjourned on Tuesday to give the prosecution more time to respond to his dramatic confession.
Pakistan’s interior ministry chief said on Friday he could not rule out foreign involvement in the Sri Lankan cricket attack.
Pakistan police on Wednesday arrested suspects in the attack on Sri Lanka’s cricket team, but said they had made no progress in tracking the gunmen.
Pakistan will announce the results of its investigation into the Mumbai attacks next week, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Friday.
In a government morgue in Mumbai lie the bodies of nine Islamist militants responsible for killing 179 people in a bloody attack on Mumbai.
Pakistan’s leader has pleaded for dialogue, not war, to fight terrorism in South Asia but told India not to push Islamabad too hard for action.
India accused Pakistan on Monday of trying to shift blame for last month’s Mumbai attacks and demanded it do more to dismantle militant networks.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown blamed banned Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba for last month’s deadly Mumbai attack.
Pakistani officials on Tuesday quizzed an alleged ”key planner” of the Mumbai attacks.
India’s foreign minister denied on Sunday that he had phoned Pakistan’s president at the height of the Mumbai terrorist siege.
At first sight, they could be the grounds of an English public school, with neatly trimmed lawns and earnest young pupils walking between classes.
The outgoing Bush administration was always going to leave president-elect Barack Obama with the problem of what to do about Pakistan.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was due in New Delhi on Wednesday as part of intense US efforts to ease tension between India and Pakistan.
The gunman captured during the attacks on Mumbai said he had undergone months of commando-style training in a Islamist militant camp in Pakistan.
Heavy gunfire erupted on Friday after Indian commandos were dropped by helicopter on to the roof of a Jewish centre in Mumbai.
Indian commandos fought to regain control of India’s commercial capital, Mumbai, on Thursday after a highly-coordinated attack by armed militants.