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Kasab’s statement against Lakhvi inadmissible: HC
Toddler’s death an accident, says accused
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US indicts ‘Jihad Jane’ for aiding terrorists
US NGO targeted, 6 die
Tin Oo, deputy leader of Aung San Suu
Kyi’s National League for Democracy Party talks to journalists at the
party’s headquarters, in Yangon, Myanmar, on Wednesday. — AP/PTI
Bali bombing plotter killed
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Kasab’s statement against Lakhvi inadmissible: HC
The Lahore High Court has declared as inadmissible the confessional statement of Ajmal Kasab recorded in India against Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the alleged mastermind of the Mumbai attacks.
In their judgment on a writ petition of Lakhvi, the alleged operational head of the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba, Justice Ijazul Ahsan and Justice Saghir Ahmed Qadri of the LHC’s Rawalpindi bench observed that under the Pakistani criminal laws, a confessional statement could be admissible only in the same case, and not in another one. The court, however, ordered that Lakhvi should face the trial and seek acquittal from the anti-terrorism court where the case was being heard. The high court could not decide the case at this stage, it observed. The Mumbai-related case has assumed great significance amid New Delhi’s demand that Pakistan must proceed earnestly to bring to justice the alleged planners, handlers and executioners of the carnage before it could agree to resume the bilateral composite dialogue. The decision, which was reserved on January 26, was announced by Justice Asad Munir and Justice Ijaz Ahmed because the judges who had authored the verdict were not at the Rawalpindi bench this week. The bench maintained that Ajmal Kasab and Faheem Arshad Ansari had not been cited as co-accused in the case registered by the Federal Investigation Agency and seven accused were being tried by the anti-terrorism court. The bench said the name of Kasab was not on the list of 20 accused declared as proclaimed offender in three different investigation reports under section 173 of the CrPC. The high court also set aside the decision of the trial court separating the trial of Kasab from that of Lakhvi and others under section 540-A of the CrPC and described it as illegal and beyond the jurisdiction of the trial court. The section 540-A could only be used against the accused who could not reappear before the court for being ill or for any other reason, the order said. After the court’s decision, Lakhvi’s lawyer Shahbaz Ahmed Rajpoot said the prosecution in Pakistan had based its case on the confessional statement of Kasab and when the high court declared it as inadmissible under the Qanoon-i-Shahdat, the case against the seven men undergoing trial could not be proved. Lakhvi had challenged the January 6 order of the trial court setting aside the acquittal petition filed by him and six other accused. The petitioner sought acquittal on the ground that the prosecution had no evidence against him except the statement of Kasab, which was not admissible under Pakistani laws.
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Toddler’s death an accident, says accused
Melbourne, March 10 He said the boy was accidentally knocked unconscious on Thursday at the house in David Street, Lalor, where he had been staying with the toddler's family. Dhillon said he panicked and put the unconscious boy in the boot of a car, drove for about three hours and dumped the body 20 km away in Oaklands Junction, without checking if the three-year-old was alive. The Victorian police, however, said the toddler could have been saved if he had received timely basic first aid than being left lying in the boot of a car. Meanwhile, grieving father of the toddler has sought hard sentencing for his housemate Gursewak Dhillon, who admitted placing the unconscious three-year-old boy in the car boot and then dumping him on the roadside. “I want law to punish him as he is responsible for my son's death,” father Harjit Singh Channa said. “I met Gursewak along with the police and he told me on my face that he had done it. I want the accused to serve hard sentence for what he has done to my family for no reason,” a visibly upset and tired Harjit said Harjit said when he asked Dhillon why he did this, the accused responded that it was by mistake. "But killing a three-year-old child cannot be a mistake," said Harjit, who is now desperate to return to India and perform the last rites of his son along with his other family members. — PTI
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ISI chief Pasha gets extension
Lt General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, chief of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), has been give one-year extension and allowed to continue with the present assignment, it was officially announced here. Gen Pasha, who was due to retire on March 18, will complete his tenure as three-star general and, more importantly, as the head of the ISI to which post he was elevated in September, 2008. Pasha’s possible extension has been subject of considerable media debate amid many discordant voices that opposed the practice of allowing extension to army generals.
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US indicts ‘Jihad Jane’ for aiding terrorists
New York/Washington, March 10 The middle-aged Pennsylvania resident Colleen R LaRose, alias Fatima LaRose, was arrested in October last year and charged with spending more than a year networking with would-be jihadists around the world. She was charged on four counts -- conspiracy to provide support to terrorists, planning to kill in a foreign country, indulging in identity thefts and making false statements. "The case demonstrates that terrorists are looking for Americans to join them in their cause and it shatters any lingering thoughts that one can spot a terrorist based on appearance," US Attorney Michael Levy said in the 11-page indictment unsealed in Philadelphia. The charging of Jihadi Jane comes months after another Pakistani American national David Coleman Headley was charged with plotting terrorists attacks in India and Denmark. Jihadi Jane's associate, said to be based in South Asia, was not named but identified in the court by his online identity CC #3. It was this individual, the court was told, who directed her to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilk. An Al-Qaida-affiliated group has put a bounty of $100,000 on Vilk's head for a blasphemous cartoon of the Prophet. Fortyseven-year-old Jihadi Jane and David Headley were both arrested from the same place.
— PTI
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US NGO targeted, 6 die
Peshawar, March 10 Lobbing grenades and firing from their automatic weapons, the militants struck the premises the NGO World Vision in Oghi sub-division of Manshera district early this morning and shot on spot six employees, police said. Two women were among the six injured persons, who were taken to a hospital in Oghi. Police said eight to 10 militants carried out the attack.
— PTI
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Suu Kyi can’t contest poll
Yangon, March 10 The Political Parties Registration Law, published in official newspapers, excludes anyone convicted by a court of law from participating in the elections. The Nobel laureate, who has spent 14 of the past 20 years in detention, was convicted last August of violating the terms of her house arrest by briefly sheltering an American who swam to her lakeside residence. The law says that political parties have 60 days from Monday, when the law was promulgated, to register with an Election Committee, whose members are to be appointed by the junta. The date of the election is yet to be announced. The law also bars members of religious orders and civil servants from joining political parties.
— AP
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Bali bombing plotter killed
Jakarta, March 10 Dulmatin, 39, who was trained by Al-Qaida in Afghanistan, was wanted for the suicide bombings that tore through two Bali nightclubs popular with westerners in 2002, killing 202 persons. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono used a speech for officials in Australian capital of Canberra today to confirm speculation that Dulmatin was one of the three suspected militants killed in two coordinated raids the day before on Jakarta's southwestern outskirts on the country's main island of Java.
— AP
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