New Delhi: Amid reports that Pakistan had found no evidence linking it to the Mumbai terror attacks, India on Thursday said it expected Islamabad to act on commitments.
“We are expecting Pakistan to act,” External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters here when asked to comment on reports that Pakistani investigators had found that the attacks […]
Davos: Under attack from the international community for not reining in militant outfits, Pakistan on Thursday said it would not allow use of its territory for terror activities.
“I assure you and I assure the house that I will never ever allow my soil, Pakistani soil to be used for terror activities,” Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousuf […]
Siddharth Varadarajan
New Delhi: When Islamabad reverts to India next week with the results of its initial investigation into the alleged involvement of Pakistani nationals in last November’s terror attacks in Mumbai, a lot more will be riding on its reply than just the fate of those who might be involved. At stake is the immediate […]
Washington: Casting doubts about Pakistan’s sincerity in holding the trial of its nationals suspected to have been involved in the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, an influential Republican lawmaker says they should be tried before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague.
“There is no reason for us to be secure in the […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s probe into the Mumbai terror attacks has established that the unprecedented strikes were planned outside this country, according to a media report on Tuesday night.
An initial probe conducted by a three-member team set up by the Interior Ministry has concluded that the 26/11 attacks were planned outside Pakistan, Dawn News channel quoted sources […]
A.G. NOORANI
A month and a half after the Mumbai blasts on November 26, 2008, India-Pakistan diplomacy on the subject is dangerously deadlocked. Initial promise of accord on amends dissipated within three days, setting a pattern that has congealed with time. How far the dialogue has moved can be gauged with two statements by Pakistan’s leaders.
On […]
Meena Menon
MUMBAI: Ramavati sits on the floor of a one-room house in a Jogeshwari slum, cursing her fate. Her husband Nathuni Parshuram Yadav, 45, was killed in the terrorist firing at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) on November 26. He had gone to the station to see off his daughter Gudiya, who was leaving for […]
MUMBAI: At first, constable Ambadas Ramchandra Pawar was thought to have died in the random firing by the two terrorists at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus here on November 26. Wearing ordinary workday clothes, he was one among the 56 killed there.
But a photograph which the Mumbai police received much after the attacks, told a different […]
Parul Sharma
NEW DELHI: Two months after the terror attacks in Mumbai, six security personnel who laid down their lives fighting terrorists, were honoured with Ashoka Chakra on the 60th Republic Day on Monday.
In all, 11 security men were awarded posthumously Ashok Chakra at the investiture ceremony. It was a rather sombre moment as the wives […]
Praveen Swami
More than half-a-century ago, two of Pakistan’s most eminent judges drew this bleak lesson from a wave of violence that had led the country into the first of its many experiences of martial law: “As long as we rely upon the hammer when a file is needed and press Islam into service to solve […]