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Accused Mumbai terrorist Mohammad Amir Ajmal Qasab whose trial began Wednesday in Mumbai, was appointed a new lawyer today after his first lawyer was dismissed for a potential conflict of interest. The new lawyer, who was appointed by the court will be paid an undisclosed special fee given the unusual circumstances of the trial...
...Qasab, barely five feet tall but with powerful shoulders under his loose, long sleeved t-shirt, appeared in court this morning with two other co-accused, Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin, inside the Arthur Road jail complex. Qasab, a Pakistani national, was the only surviving suspect from the Nov. 26 attacks on Mumbai that killed about 170 people; Ansari and Sabahuddin, who are Indian, were arrested separately and are accused of helping to plan the attacks. All three of them were barefoot and wore the same clothes as they did yesterday, sitting together on a bench in one corner...
...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...
...interval, the judge spoke to several lawyers who had appeared in court offering to represent Qasab, including one who said he came to court because he had read in the newspaper that Qasab needed a lawyer. Yesterday, Tahiliani dismissed Anjali Waghamare, his earlier lawyer, for a potential conflict of interest, as she had discussed representing a victim in the attacks, who is also expected to appear as a witness for the prosecution. When the proceedings resumed, the judge announced that he had appointed Abbas Kazmi as Qasab's new lawyer. "I am willing," Kazmi said. Tahiliani named another lawyer...