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Mumbai Attacks

Pakistan court indicts seven suspects

AFP, Islamabad
A Pakistani anti-terror court yesterday charged seven suspects in connection with the Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people one year ago, a defence lawyer said.
The men were indicted at the court in a high security prison in the city of Rawalpindi on the eve of the first anniversary of India's worst militant attacks, which dramatically soured relations with rival Pakistan.
All those in the dock pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The seven people Pakistan arrested over the
November 26-29 siege on India's financial capital included the alleged mastermind of the operation, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, and alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative Zarar Shah.
"AU seven of them have been indicted, including Lakhvi. The accused pleaded not guilty as the evidence does not support the charges." lawyer Shahbaz Rajput told AFP by telephone.
"They have been indicted under the anti-terrorism act and the Pakistani penal code," said Rajput, without elaborating.
India and Washington blamed the deadly
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Mumbai rampage on Pakistan's banned militant group LeT. The attacks stalled a fragile four-year peace process between the two nucleararmed south Asian rivals.
In Washington for a state visit this week, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called on the world to pressure Pakistan to rein in extremists.
US President Barack Obama said he believed Pakistan was making progress in fightingextremism.
The nuclear-armed Muslim nation is locked in offensives against Taliban militants in the northwest and has historically funded antiIndia groups.
Wednesday's indictments come a week after India handed Pakistan more information about the attacks, which New Delhi blamed Pakistani "official agencies" for abetting. Islamabad flatly denies such charges.
Court proceedings have taken place behind closed doors with journalists barred from the hearings and defence lawyers leaking only small details.
"We will defend them. The
next hearing is December 5," said Rajput.
New Delhi has been pressuring Islamabad to speed up a probe of Pakistani militants blamed for the 60-hour siege that saw 10 heavily armed gunmen target luxury hotels, Mumbai's main railway station, a restaurant and a Jewish centre.
Repeating India's stance, junior foreign minister Shashi Tharoor told parliament that Pakistan had failed to provide the "necessary cooperation in bringing the perpetrators of what happened last year to justice".
According to news agency Press TYust of India, the latest information handed to Pakistan included statements of key witnesses, including a magistrate and FBI officials, from the trial of the lone gunman to survive the attacks.
The gunman, Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, has confessed to his involvement in the attacks in a dramatic announcement to a court in Mumbai.
The two countries, which gained independence from British rule and split in the 1947 partition, have fought three wars.