Mumbai: Many top officials have stated before the Ram Pradhan Committee which probed the 26/11 attacks that Police Commissioner Hasan Gafoor neither gave them the right guidance, nor did he inquire about the ongoing operations. As a result, many officers did not feel one with the police force.
Mr. Gafoor’s communication on the wireless and the […]
Staff Reporter
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena on Saturday made a renewed call for hanging the Mumbai gunman, Mohammed Ajmal Amir ‘Kasab’.
While crores were spent on the 26/11 trial, the recently released report absolving the police force of any blame and the media’s obsession with Ajmal were making a mockery of the sacrifice of the martyrs and […]
Taking over the reins of the Home Ministry after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, P. Chidambaram has tried to galvanise and motivate the massive security and intelligence apparatus into making fight against terror its first mission. Though he agrees that things are gradually changing, the Home Minister asserts that the UPA government has not been […]
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) expressed serious concern over the Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram meeting the chief of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Leon Panetta.
In a statement, the party’s Polit Bureau said this was the first time that the CIA chief was accorded a meeting with the Union Home […]
Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram tells Rajdeep Sardesai of CNN IBN in an interview on the fallout of the Lahore attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team that what is happening in Pakistan now is a consequence of that country harbouring terrorists and terrorist outfits and criminals. And, on the IPL tournaments he says it […]
LUCKNOW: The Jamiatul Ulema-i- Hind (JUH) on Sunday registered its strong protest against Muslim youth being targeted in the name of terrorism. The “witch-hunt” should end immediately if India was to be saved from falling prey to the designs of the divisive forces.
The Jamiat warned that any interference in the autonomous functioning of the ‘madrasas’ […]
Vinay Kumar
NEW DELHI: While highlighting Pakistan’s recent admission that its soil was used in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, India on Wednesday said diplomacy had “prevailed” and told Islamabad that it would continue to demand dismantling of the terror infrastructure in a “verifiable and credible” manner.
“Diplomacy has not failed. Diplomacy has prevailed,” External Affairs […]
Nirupama Subramanian
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan wants India to “come clean” on those in India who could be involved in the Mumbai attacks.
Responding to a statement by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee in Parliament on Friday, a Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesman said it was a “rehash” of a “standard” Indian line against Pakistan, and “at variance with the […]
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday welcomed as a “positive step” Pakistan’s admission that elements from that country were responsible for the 26/11 Mumbai carnage and reiterated India’s hope that Islamabad would take “credible steps” to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure on its territory.
“Pakistan authorities have admitted that elements in Pakistan were responsible […]
Sandeep Dikshit
NEW DELHI: India on Monday said it would wait for a formal response from Pakistan before reacting to the steps taken by Islamabad to book the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks. “We await a formal response. The picture is not clear,” said sources in the Ministry of External Affairs on reports that the […]