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...With the question of Qasab's age set aside, the prosecutor launched a full frontal attack on Pakistan - the unnamed but ever-present fourth defendant on trial in Mumbai. (Qasab's co-defendants are Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin Sheikh, both Indians, who were arrested before the Mumbai attacks but are suspected of helping with some preliminary planning.) As he outlined the details of the case, Nikam focused his argument on the second charge of "waging war against the government of India." The attacks, he said, had "the definite target of capturing Kashmir." (Lashkar e Taiba, a jihadi group that...
...Qasab has been in custody since Nov. 26, the first night of the attacks. Ansari, who was arrested last February, was found to be carrying a rough drawing of Mumbai landmarks. Sabahuddin, who was arrested for allegedly planning a bomb targeting Bangalore's Indian Institute of Sciences, is accused of doing legwork for the Mumbai attack. Both were brought to Mumbai late last year to be tried jointly with Qasab...
...morning session began with yet another major complication: the court-appointed lawyer for Ansari and Sabahuddin, Ijaz Naqvi, had not shown up. The judge, M. L. Tahiliani, spoke out loud to Ansari and instructed him to have his wife, Yasmin, call the lawyer to find out what happened. Naqvi had appeared in court yesterday and apparently had not informed the judge or any other court official of the reason for his absence. The judge grew irritated and seemed to imply that Ansari was somehow withholding information about the reasons for his lawyer's absence. "I don't know what...
...Ansari, dressed in a matching beige and gray track suit and polo shirt, stared at his wife during most of the proceedings. A delicate, petite woman wearing a long gray and black robe and a black flowered headscarf, Yasmin Ansari addressed the court twice this morning on behalf of her husband, speaking firmly but slightly nervously in Urdu from behind the veil covering her face. "I am trying," she said, when questioned by the judge about her efforts to find a new lawyer for her husband. Fahim Ansari has previously expressed his wish to find his own lawyer, but complained...
...bushy beard and close-cropped hair, also agreed to his new representation. He filled the time during lulls in the proceedings by reading a January issue of the newsmagazine India Today, at one point apparently engrossed in a story about Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's health. In the end, Ansari, 35, also agreed to the judge's decision...