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...detailing the alleged conspiracy in Pakistan. "Whenever there is something concerning my client, I take care of that," he says. His defense of Qasab has focused on poking holes in the evidence-gathering. He pointed out unsealed evidence bags, and a mobile-phone SIM card wrapper that did not appear to match the SIM card inside it. "This is all fabricated and planted by the police," Kazmi says...
...iconic Taj Mahal Palace and Towers Hotel. But the trial of Mohammed Ajmal Amir Qasab will proceed as on any other day. Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam has called more than 270 witnesses over the last six months, and the last of them, including the main police investigator, are expected to appear on Nov. 26, the day the siege began a year ago. Nikam is already well-known after spending 13 years as the main prosecutor in the trial of the perpetrators of the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts. In comparison, he says, this case will be completed in "record time." It began...
...Obama's fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill appear to have other ideas, however, and are talking of levying a war tax to highlight their opposition to reinforcing the 68,000 U.S. troops currently in Afghanistan. "If this war is important enough to expand and fight, then it ought to be important enough to pay for," Representative David Obey, a Wisconsin Democrat who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, tells TIME. "If we don't, we run the risk of devouring every dollar that would otherwise be used to rebuild our own economy." He argues that the domestic initiatives of both Harry...
...Obama Administration. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, "At a time when we are working to relaunch negotiations [between Israelis and Palestinians], these actions make it more difficult for our efforts to succeed. Neither party should engage in efforts or take actions that could unilaterally pre-empt, or appear to pre-empt, negotiations." The Palestinians and the United States say the status of Wallajeh and the rest of East Jerusalem should be held open pending negotiations on a final peace deal...
...Those are messages that Ahmadinejad needs to hear from friends, notes Anoush Ehteshami, a professor at the Centre for Iranian Studies at Durham University in England. Since Iran does not appear to be listening to the West, especially not the United States, on the issue, the emergence of interlocutors who could help bridge the gap between the two sides ought to be welcomed. "Hearing [these messages] from Lula will be a little bit better received than if it were coming from U.S. President or E.U. leaders," Ehteshami says...