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Mumbai Attacks: India vows to continue trial as Rana acquitted
India on Friday said it would press on with attempts to try Tahawwur Hussain Rana over the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
File photograph taken on November 27, 2008 shows flames gushing out of The Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, one of the sites attacked by alleged militant gunmen. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
MUMBAI:
As a US court acquitted Pakistani-born Canadian businessman Tahawwur Hussain Rana of charges of plotting the deadly Mumbai attacks, India has said it will press on with attempts to try Rana. India’s internal security secretary UK Bansal said the government in New Delhi was “disappointed” that Rana was acquitted at a court in Chicago on Thursday.
But he added: “I do not see it as a setback as our case is still under investigation.”
The Indian government would review the verdict, Bansal told reporters in Indian capital New Delhi, adding that federal investigators were still preparing a case against both Rana and Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley, who was the star witness in the Chicago trial, with a view of trying them in India. “When the probe is over, we will produce the evidence in court,” he said. AFP Detailed story IHT page 4
Published in The Express Tribune, June 11th, 2011.
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lol the indians, so desperateRecommend
Let’s both ( India and Pakistan) say no to terrorism.Recommend
Indians do not support terrorism, nor does people of Pakistan. What ever one does, good or bad, it comes back to him/her.Recommend
@SMI: nothing to lol about my friend. 164 innocent people lost their lives in the mumbai attacks. Ppl like rana, headley, hafiz saeed, mahmood azhar, etc. should hardly be your role models; nor should their walking about freely be any cause for celebration…Recommend
I am an Indian, people across the border in Pakistan face similar fate as that of ours like corruption, poverty, pollution, population, illiteracy etc. It’s the ruling class which has their own agenda in (in both the countries). Further, even the countries from west have their own interest. First they supported Taliban and made them fight against USSR. Now the same Taliban is their enemy. If they do good, they will bear good fruits, if they do bad, they will face problems.It is this country (from west), which gives loans through world bank to us, then says, you have to re-pay the same with interest amount and then what ever money was given as a loan to us for development, the contract for development should be given to their country people/ or their companies. This means profit from all sides. We as people should understand and stay united. This is a simple request. There’s no point fighting, after all we belong to same culture. The real enemy is illiteracy and corruption. So let’s stay focused. Recommend
@SMI
and u are proud of ur current situation!!!…….???!!!Recommend
lol I feel sorry for indians.Recommend
@roflcopter,dont be.instead feel sorry for your own countrymen who die everyday by terrorism.i hope one day you will realise the evil effect of terrorism but i fear that wont be too late for you.Recommend
@Roflcopter – just bcoz pak is in a sorry state, u shouldnt be feeling sorry for every other thing !!!Recommend
oh its a very big setback. The “star witness” headley proved to be ineffective and the defendant said ISI was not involved.Recommend
@Roflcopter: And I (as an Indian from Mumbai), feel ashamed of Muslims, who condone violence. I pity your (in)humanity. Those who hurl flames at others, are soon engulfed by it themselves. Just look around. There is no pleasure in seeing you suffer. Yet, your ‘free’ media continues to feign a false ‘neutrality’ on the Chicago trial. While going to bits about the shenanigans of your ‘strategic assets’ from Karachi to Khyber. You don’t see the irony. No, you really don’t see the irony. How many ‘moderate’ Pakistanis are here to voice their denunciations of Mssrs. Headley and Rana? Not one! Your attavistic, jingoistic, fundamentalist mindset stands exposed. Still … I hope, we hope, Pakistan holds. Because to see you collapse, god forbid, would be to veto a large chunk of humanity. Now do you see the difference and similarity between you and us? I hope you do. But most likely, you still don’t. Recommend
1) Pakistani nationals did this 26/11.
2) LET organised this attack.
3) ISI/Pak Army was the brain behind this massacre.
Above are proven facts which needs no evidence, the whole world knows about Pakistan harboring terrorists and sending them to neighboring countries create trouble.
Dear Pakistanis, think honestly, after 26/11, how Pakistan is progressing ? Pakistan is more or less isolated from international community like Somalia, Mexico,etc.
Still you are proud of 26/11 ? Recommend
@Roflcopter:
No need for your sorry, you first feel for your own 30000 countryman who had lost their lives because of the same terrorism.
Feel proud that Pakistan is among top 10 in ‘Failed State Index’, people like you are the reason for this spectacular achievement.Recommend
Rana is going away for 30 years. In Pakistan he would have been acquited. Recommend
Yes, Rana’s release is some sort of setback but he had opened the floodgates by admitting his support to LeT and major Iqbal. India should investigate Mr.Rana. and his friend Headley. Funny thing is pakistan’s army is not interested in Rana who is ex-army man and a deserter. Recommend
World has no idea tyhat what’s the capital of Pakistan but they know Abottabad is in Pakistan.Recommend
Capital of Switzerland is Zurich and it ius famous for Choclates. Capital of Pakistan is Abottabad and it is famous for Terrorists. Currency of Pakistan is $ as amount of aid given by US is more than its own currency.Recommend
Roflcopter usually has intelligent comments but this one is very disappointing. Rather than somehow gloating that Headley was not convinced on all three charges, many Pakistanis are seeing this as poking India in the eye. How so?
We are all victims of the same terrorists. Pakistan’s government and military have supported them. Pakistani citizens know that. You live under even worse fear than Indian citizens. You may have “supported” these actions when they were directed purely at India and Indians should rightly resent that. Indians do not condone any sort of terrorism in Pakistan. We are not happy when a single innocent Pakistani life is lost. My heart hurts for all those Pakistani families that lose family members to these awful terrorists.
We hope you win your battle against the terrorists. A peaceful, prosperous, and democratic Pakistan will be wonderful for India. I can’t wait for the day that Indian and Pakistan compete purely on the sports field and the stock market floor. Recommend
@ashok sai:
“… Above are proven facts which needs no evidence,…”
Howcome somethings gets proved which do not needs evidence.. thats what we say… show the evidence and prove it… Dont blame any individual act on the country… this creates hatred…
Dear Ashok…. I swear… I wish the international big powers isolates us… all the problems are due to the reasons that big powers have stake in our region… overall Pakistan can never be isolated… you know it…. because we have a working man power… and there are many cold foes of big powers as well :)
Thumbs up for Dharmesh Bajpai.Recommend
Talk about pie on the face of kangroo courts.!! Great to see them loose the case. Hail to Acquittance !!! Epic Fail on indians YES!!!!!Recommend
Pakistan for ever !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Recommend
Now that the Indians know what they had been claiming for ages has been lost, they will resort to giving us moral lectures. They never get tired, do they?Recommend
Guys there is nothing to celebrate for you to. Though the Rana’s verdict is not in favour of 26/11 due to lack of concrete proof. You guys have to worry about the LeT and major Iqbal part which is not less than deadly thing. And some people say it’s nothing big as it is day to day happening in pakistan and pakistanis got used to of it. But mind one thing this is not good for any country. Recommend
@Basit:
Dear friend, you read the following link and get back to me :-
http://www.propublica.org/article/pakistan-and-the-mumbai-attacks-the-untold-story
You say its an individual act, then answer this questions,
Who is Ajmal Kasab and why his family disappeared immediately after the attack from Faridkot ?
Is it so difficult for a country, that too which has a famous spy agency to find out address and whereabouts of 10 men attacked Mumbai?
Why is Hafiz Sayeed acquited even after India pinpoint him to be master behind the attacks ? Any sane neighboring country would have acted and got to the root of the findings.
It shows the intention of Pakistan establishment to bleed India, is it not ?
If its an individual act, why so much hesitation in accepting those individuals as your nationals ? After all individual cannot defame a country by doing like this, as you said.
Why your country refused to send ISI chief after agreeing to send him ?
Rana is convicted on supported LET ? I am sure you must be aware that LET is not punch of people who are working for ‘Amani Ki Asha’.
You are proving your typical Pakistani mindset by saying, “there..cold foes..,etc.”, my friend, in International diplomacy there are no ‘friends or foes’, its the economical viability which writes the fate of a country.
Dear friend, if Pakistan won’t change the ‘terrorism as state policy’ even if I don’t wish Isolation which is happening now cannot be prevented. You calmly sit and think, where and all Pakistan is isolated now.Recommend
@ashok sai:
News opera told you this?Recommend
@ ALL INDIANS
A pakistani court didnt give this judgement a third unbiased court did… so why are you guys acting like such cry babies?
@ all pakistanis
lets plz mature a little and not paste rude and offensive comments.. if every individual does his/her bit we can perhaps change our reputationRecommend
@ashok sai….one simple question for you.
Where is Prasad Shrikant Purohit? He’s a terrorist who killed 68 Pakistanis. WHy is he still alive? Why isn’t that terrorist hanged (thats what he deserves). I hope you will be able to answer that question one day. Till then, whatever you say ain’t gonna mean anythin’ Recommend
@Sam
The prosecution could not prove that Rana knew about Mumbai attacks before it happened & hence Rana was acquitted. Even Indian courts would have done the same. It does not mean that LET, ISI were not involved in Mumbai attacks. Let us wait for the New York case where the prosecution will, in all probability, use the evidence gathered against ISI. Hope wiser counsel prevails on ISI & Pakistan Army to dismantle the so called strategic Assets. It will go a long way in bringing peace in the Region that will make Pakistan prosperous Recommend
Wow so much of pride because one of their terrorist got acquitted in “mumbai” case and not the remaining cases. This speaks out loud enough that Pakistani mentality is they should not be caught in act towards India, no matter worldwide they are branded as terrorist nation. As long as they can “get away” with their crimes in India they feel proud enough. SERIOUSLY , GOD, this is all Paksitanis care about ? All they can ever think is their shame vis a vis INDIA. I have no more complains with this pathetic nation whose very existence and brand recognition is solely on its comparison with India. Recommend
@delh_se:
mughals ruled you guys for centuries…..presently we hold alot more strategic importance than you guys……there is no comparison……if i were you id put a cap on the baseless egoRecommend