Investigation

6 Pakistanis wanted: Mumbai police chief

Feb 13th, 2009 | By Editor | Category: Investigation

Staff Reporter
 
Mumbai: The dossier on the November 26, 2008 terror attacks, submitted to Pakistan, lists six Pakistanis as “wanted,” Mumbai Police Commissioner Hasan Gafoor said on Thursday.
Clearing the confusion over local involvement, Mr. Gafoor ruled out the mention of any Indian name.
The dossier mentioned 16 names — of nine deceased terrorists, the lone surviving gunman […]



Pranab: examining Pakistan’s request

Feb 13th, 2009 | By Editor | Category: Investigation, Reactions

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 […]



Pakistan briefs envoys on Mumbai attack probe

Jan 20th, 2009 | By Editor | Category: Investigation, Lead Story

Nirupama Subramanian
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday briefed representatives of diplomatic missions here on the “concrete steps” it had taken in the course of its investigation of the Mumbai attacks.
Through a PowerPoint presentation, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Rehman Malik, who heads the Interior Ministry, informed the assembled diplomats of the detention of suspects, the launch […]



Pakistan briefs envoys on Mumbai attack probe

Jan 20th, 2009 | By Editor | Category: Investigation, Lead Story

Nirupama Subramanian
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday briefed representatives of diplomatic missions here on the “concrete steps” it had taken in the course of its investigation of the Mumbai attacks.
Through a PowerPoint presentation, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Rehman Malik, who heads the Interior Ministry, informed the assembled diplomats of the detention of suspects, the launch […]



Pakistan gives probe team 10 days

Jan 19th, 2009 | By Editor | Category: Investigation, Lead Story

Nirupama Subramanian
ISLAMABAD: A three-man team of Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency tasked with conducting an investigation on the basis of the Indian dossier on the Mumbai attacks has been given 10 days to report back with its findings.
Rehman Malik, who heads the Interior Ministry, told journalists that the government would also try to “convert” the information […]



Pakistan begins probe into Lashkar role

Jan 1st, 2009 | By Editor | Category: Investigation, Lead Story

 Nirupama Subramanian
ISLAMABAD: Despite public denials, the Pakistan government appears to have begun investigations, on the basis of evidence shown to it by the United States and Britain, into the alleged involvement of the Lashkar-e-Taiba in the Mumbai attacks.
The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday reported unnamed Pakistani security officials as saying Zarar Shah, a LeT operative […]



Pakistan stalls, obfuscates and erases evidence

Dec 25th, 2008 | By Editor | Category: Investigation

G. Parthasarathy
In the five years I lived in Pakistan, a constant feature was the ever-present ISI minders who followed me wherever I went. Their surveillance was crude. On one occasion they seated themselves next to a table at which I was hosting Maleeha Lodhi, (later Pakistan’s Envoy in Washington) at the height of the […]



Police custody for Ajmal till January 6 in car hijack case

Dec 25th, 2008 | By Editor | Category: Aftermath, Investigation

Rahi Gaikwad
 
 
 
Mumbai: The Mumbai terror attacks accused, Mohammad Ajmal Amir, was on Wednesday remanded to police custody till January 6 in a case pertaining to the hijacking of a Skoda on the night of November 26. The case has been registered at the Marine Drive police station.
On November 26, Ajmal and his partner Mohammad Ismail, […]



Jammu arrests cast new light on Jaish-e-Mohammad networks

Dec 24th, 2008 | By Editor | Category: Investigation

Praveen Swami 
SRINAGAR: Back in June, 1999, a portly cleric attempted to burrow under the walls of the Kot Bhalwal maximum security prison in Jammu — but found himself trapped at the narrowest point in the tunnel.
“Spend more time digging,” a prison guard at Jammu’s Kot Bhalwal jail taunted the cleric, “it will help you lose […]



FBI grills Ajmal Amir

Dec 22nd, 2008 | By Editor | Category: Investigation, News

Mumbai: Officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have grilled for over nine hours Mohammad Ajmal Amir ‘Kasab,’ the lone surviving Lashkar-e-Taiba militant involved in the November 26 terror attacks.
Sleuths of the U.S. agency tried to ascertain Ajmal’s role and handlers in Pakistan….(Full Story)