The trial of the only captured gunman in the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks , Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab , began on Monday. Kasab appeared before specially appointed judge M.L. Tahiliyani at the Bombay...
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Pakistan official concedes Mumbai attacks partially planned in Pakistan
The November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks were partially planned in Pakistan, according to statements made Thursday at a news conference by A. Rehman Malik , the Advisor on Interior Affairs for the Pakistan...
Pakistani officials Saturday announced the re-capture of high-level Taliban operative Ustad Mohammed Yasir in the northern city of Peshawar near the Afghan border. Yasir served as senior aide and spokesman to Taliban leader Mullah Omar . He was...
Treaty required for extradition of Mumbai attack suspects: Pakistan
Pakistan on Friday said a bilateral extradition treaty would be required if it were to transfer Mumbai terror attack suspects to India. Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said in a television interview that no...
Establishing an International Tribunal for the Mumbai Terror Suspects
JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that an international tribunal should be formed to prosecute persons involved in the Mumbai terrorist attacks in order to avoid the politically unworkable alternatives of retaliatory surgical strikes...
Rights group urges India president to reject new anti-terrorism measures
Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday urged Indian President Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil to reject the recently passed Unlawful Activities Prevention Amendment of 2008 (UAPA) , which would allow the government to hold...
India parliament approves anti-terrorism measures after Mumbai attacks
India's upper house of parliament the Rajya Sabha on Thursday approved two anti-terrorism bills in response to the recent Mumbai terror attacks . One bill, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Amendment of 2008 (UAPA) will...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Materneau Chrispin, PhD candidate in International Law at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, says that Pakistan's refusal to extradite two of its citizens to India where they are wanted in connection with the November terrorist attacks...
UN bans alleged terrorist front group suspected in Mumbai attacks
The UN Security Council on Wednesday added the name of a Pakistani charity seen as a front for the group being blamed for the Mumbai terror attacks to its list of entities subject...
India urges UN to ban alleged terrorist front group suspected in Mumbai attacks
The Indian government on Tuesday urged the UN Security Council to ban a Pakistani charity seen as a front for the group being blamed for the Mumbai terror attacks . Indian Minister of State...