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US prosecutors on Monday charged American national and suspected Lashkar-e-Tayyeba operative David C. Headley with helping plan the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai that killed 172 people.

The charges filed in Chicago’s federal court allege that Headley conducted extensive surveillance of targets in Mumbai for more than two years preceding the 2008 attacks.

Headley has been charged in 12 coun

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Pakistani gunman Ajmal Amir Kasab's new lawyer, K P Pawar, said on the first day of his job that "he would do his best to defend his client''.

"I will fulfil whatever responsibility that has been given to me with complete determination and zeal. The court has expressed confidence in me by appointing me as Kasab's lawyer and I will do my best,'' Pawar said.

Pawar, who has replaced Abbas Kazm

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Abbas Kazmi, who was sacked as the lawyer of Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab by a special trial court, alleged on Tuesday that he had to face humiliation at the hands of prosecution during the trial.

"I was called a terrorist's lawyer in the court. I was called Abu Abbas and it was said that Pakistan was going to reward me. Finally I was called a liar," Kazmi told reporters a day after his remova

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S G Abbas Kazmi, the lawyer for 26/11 Mumbai terror attack accused Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, was sacked by Special Judge M.L. Tahaliyani on Monday. The sudden move comes three days after Kazmi submitted an unconditional apology for "lying".

The court cited non-cooperation on the part of Kazmi while removing him.

Special Judge Tahaliyani, who is presiding over the trial, ordered that the ca

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On November 26 last year, this home of mine was held to ransom by a group of terrorists. It was shrouded in over 60 hours of darkness. My home was under siege and I felt captured, distraught and helpless. More so because I happened to be at one of the 11 locations that the terrorists had attacked — the Taj Mahal hotel at the Gateway of India.

I was only 15 years old then. I was having dinner w

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India is paying homage to the victims of the 26/11 Mumbai carnage on its first anniversary. One year ago on November 26, 2008, 10 Pakistani terrorists held Mumbai hostage for nearly 60 hours killing over 170 people and wounded more than 300, many of them foreigners.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, Home Minister RR Patil and Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal paid homage at the Ober

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The serenity of the sylvan State Reserve Police Force grounds in Goregaon is shattered by furious gunshots. Commandos clad in midnight blue and armed with MP5 submachine guns take positions behind a mock room.

Suddenly a youth with a backpack comes out of one of these “rooms,” screaming ‘surrender.’ As the commandos close in on him, he takes out a knife, but is overpowered.

With this mock

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In what was possibly the largest terrorist attacks in recent Indian history, nearly 200 people were killed and over 300 injured in the Mumbai attacks on November 26, 2008.

A siege that lasted nearly 3 days, scarred Mumbai and Mumbaikars, possibly forever. Maharashtra as a state was affected, and after effects on the Indian government were observed. Also affected were the relations between Ind

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New Delhi: The wives of the policemen who died fighting terrorists on 26/11 met Sonia Gandhi on Monday and put forward some demands.


CNN-IBN spoke to Kavita Karkare, the wife of slain Mumbai top cop Hemant Karkare.


CNN-IBN: It’s been one year now to 26/11, what do you have to say about the state of investigations?


Kavita Karkare: I am not happy about the investigations, because the