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President Barack Obama recently sent a personal message to Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari, urging him to rally his compatriots to help the U.S. fight in Afghanistan. Obama's message may, however, have been sent to the wrong address, because it will likely take all of the the embattled Zardari's political energies - and then some - to simply remain in power. Already weighed down by the burdens of his deep unpopularity, the menace of burgeoning domestic extremism and a sour economy, Zardari faces a new crisis this Saturday with the expiration of an amnesty on corruption charges against...
...usual protocol. They can talk only during the proceedings, with Qasab leaning over the railings of the dock, making it difficult to establish any rapport. And from his office in Mumbai, there is little Kazmi can do to counter the reams of evidence 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...
That belief is central to Nikam's case, and he has spent months putting into evidence the satellite phone calls and financial records that Indian authorities say prove that the attacks were planned by a jihadi network based in Pakistan. U.S. investigators and U.S. citizens who witnessed the attacks gave testimony in Mumbai; Mumbai police also got help from American intelligence officials when they went to New Jersey to trace calls routed through a U.S.-based internet phone service. The Indian government has presented several dossiers of evidence to Pakistani authorities to prosecute defendants there. On Wednesday, an anti-terrorism...
Perhaps they realize that the spotlight of this trial has already shifted away from Mumbai. India is putting intense diplomatic pressure on Pakistan to bring those accused to justice and lobbying its allies to do the same. What India most covets is the arrest and prosecution of Hafiz Saeed, the founder of LeT. Saeed was recently released from detention but has not been charged in connection with the Mumbai attacks...
...interview with the Christian Science Monitor on Nov. 25, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, "There is now impeccable evidence the conspiracy was planned in Pakistan. It was executed with the active connivance of people who are still roaming around freely in Pakistan. Therefore, I respectfully request the world community to use all its influence on Pakistan to desist from that sort of behavior." Those are strong words coming from the normally reticent Indian leader, and a signal of a harder line in the second year after Mumbai...