26/11 attack: India awaits Pakistan response on witness testimony
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Official sources said Pakistan had ignored India’s bid to facilitate the questioning of the remaining 27 witnesses in the case either through video conferencing or by sending a team to examine them. Pakistan has instead chosen to attribute the delay in trial to India’s refusal to send witnesses to Pakistan. Previously, the trial was affected by frequent change of judges and prosecutors.
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(This story originally appeared in on Jan 10, 2021)NEW DELHI: In the middle of Islamabad’s apparent clampdown on UN designated terrorists, the Mumbai attacks trial in Pakistan seems to have hit another roadblock with the Imran Khan government not responding to India’s offer to host a judicial commission for examining witnesses in Mumbai.
The US on Saturday said that it is encouraged by the conviction of Lashkar-e-Taiba operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi in a terror financing case in Pakistan, but Islamabad should further hold him accountable for his involvement in terror attacks, including the 2008 Mumbai carnage. Mumbai attack mastermind Lakhvi was sentenced to 5 years in jail on Friday by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court in a terror financing case, amidst mounting international pressure on Islamabad to bring to justice terrorists roaming free in the country. Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Lahore Judge Ejaz Ahmad Buttar sentenced UN proscribed terrorist Lakhvi to five years of rigorous imprisonment each on three counts with a fine of PKR 100,000 (approximately USD 620) each on three counts. His punishment will run concurrently.
LeT operations commander and 26 11 attacks mastermind Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by an anti terrorism court in Pakistan on Friday
26/11 mastermind Lakhvi sentenced to 15 years in jail by Pakistan court - He was sentenced to five years concurrently on three counts, with a fine of Rs 100,000 on each count.
LeT Terrorist and 26/11 Mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi Arrested in Pakistan
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Mumbai attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was arrested on Saturday in Pakistan on terror financing charges, an official said. Lakhvi, who was on bail since 2015 in the Mumbai attack case, was arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab province.
However, the CTD did not reveal the place of his arrest. Following an intelligence-based operation conducted by the CTD Punjab, proscribed organisation LeT leader Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was arrested on charges of terrorism financing, it said.
It further said that Lakhvi, 61, was arrested in a case of terrorism financing registered in a police station of CTD Lahore. Lakhvi is accused of running a dispensary, using funds collected for terrorism financing. He and others also collected funds from this dispensary and used these funds for further terrorism financing. He also used the