Mumbai Attacks

[jetLi]

Don't slander, plz give the proof first

Even the suspect come from

plz give the proof that the suspect have any tie with Parkistan's goverment.

 

[India_loves_peace]

The trial is just started man....
The kasab has accepted he is pakistani...
Pakistan has accepted that he came by the way of karachi...(read above news from BBC)
I think day will come surely when ties of pakistan govt will also be exposed to all the world....
But that is never an aim of India...
India wants Pakistan to dismantle the terrorist network in pakistan which is evident to all world.
India wants Pakistan to take care that in future no terrorist will receive training on its soil....

 

[koolio]

The trial is just started man....
The kasab has accepted he is pakistani...
Pakistan has accepted that he came by the way of karachi...(read above news from BBC)
I think day will come surely when ties of pakistan govt will also be exposed to all the world....
But that is never an aim of India...
India wants Pakistan to dismantle the terrorist network in pakistan which is evident to all world.
India wants Pakistan to take care that in future no terrorist will receive training on its soil....

You guys jump on the conclusion right away with the bandwagon waiting for you as soon as it bleeps, Pakistan is awaiting from INTERPOL to see which DNA profile it matches in INTERPOLS database, yet GOI refused to share evidence with INTERPOL it was Pakistan who took the bold decision to send these DNA profiles rather it should have been India, India needs to stop interfering in Internal affairs of Pakistan rather it should dismantle terrorists groups such as RSS, Shiv Sena, Vishwa Hindu parishad you cant expect to tell the person to clean his own plate while your own plate is kept dirty.

 

[HAIDER]

Again , if court work as summary court and issue death penalty without appeal and hang him. Then where Pakistan investigation stands ? ....This is high profile international case, this person should not hand over to civil court, before Pak complete investigation. Why Indian govt in rush and doing this ?.

 

[rubyjackass]

Dont worry, I assure you this case will take atleast 5 years as all others in Indian courts

 

[SurvivoR]

Again , if court work as summary court and issue death penalty without appeal and hang him. Then where Pakistan investigation stands ? ....This is high profile international case, this person should not hand over to civil court, before Pak complete investigation. Why Indian govt in rush and doing this ?.

Why dont they show him on media or air the trial on media lets see if he can realy speak urdu or hindi

Did anyone here got hold of questioning Kasab was put before by Indian police ?

The conversation is funny once again.

 

[SurvivoR]

Dont worry, I assure you this case will take atleast 5 years as all others in Indian courts

And what will be result ? a big O !

 

[HAIDER]

Believe it they will hang him early as possible, because BJP will for sure hang him anyway. If win the election. Because BJP need to bury so many anti muslim hate acts with this case.

 

[rubyjackass]

If the case closed early it will give less to the BJP to exploit. But considering the attack, it is only reasonable that the case will be decided soon. One of the charges was 'war on India'. Do you expect him to live with that?
Death punishment in India is very very very rare. I dont see it even here. There are many human right groups which cry about it. Their case is that these people are brainwashed. But not much was said about this guy. May be thats because people know the case will take long.

Btw BJP cannot 'hang' Qasab like Zardari could kick Sharif from politics(like ppl say). In India judiciary may be corrupt but, independently from the legislature and executive.

 

[HAIDER]

But Pakistani govt already receive dead Pakistani nationals from India. Pakistani govt never hand over dead Indians.

 

[Bane Blade]

How often are these cases actually handed over to neutral lawyers or will he just plead guilty on all counts from a state acting lawyer?

 

[wtf]

How often are these cases actually handed over to neutral lawyers or will he just plead guilty on all counts from a state acting lawyer?

That is relevant in this case. Apparently all the lawyers in Mumbai were refusing to take Kasab's side (or those publically willing were intimidated not to).

Kasab is now requesting a court appointed lawyer, who will be named today. Somebody has atleast told him his rights and hopefully the trial will result in the truth.

I need a lawyer: Kasab


And about the concern of pleading guilty to all counts due to state appointed lawyer - Usually the state appointed lawyer is pretty neutral and will take Kasab's side.The prosecution lawyer cannot intimidate the defense (cannot talk to defense without court approval etc.) , Prosecution lawyer is separate from police etc.


The doubts here are to the experience/competence , how good a lawyer will he get etc.

 

[Bane Blade]

Well if his court case is in New Delhi and people know of some history about the lawyer do share it on the forum folks and thanks wtf lets hope that the real terrorists are caught.

 

[wtf]

A great editorial in Dawn today on the Mumbai issue etc.

DAWN.COM | Editorial | PostMumbai-ties-with-India

A FEW years ago a “peace process” between Pakistan and India was begun. Representatives of the two countries would meet periodically to discuss their disputes. Their agenda being inclusive, the process was called a “composite dialogue”.

It went through five rounds and then India suspended it following the terrorist attacks in Mumbai on Nov 26, 2008. The Indian government and people believed that the perpetrators had lived in Pakistan and launched their operation from its soil. Pakistan’s own investigators confirmed this. The culprits, it appeared, had been sponsored, trained, and directed by certain militant organisations (notably Jamaatud Dawa and Lashkar-e-Taiba) located in Pakistan.

Under intense Indian and international pressure, the Pakistan government agreed to go after these organisations, arrested and detained scores of their activists. It undertook to interrogate them and prosecute those against whom evidence of complicity in terrorist acts would be found. Remand was obtained to extend the detention of some of these suspects for further questioning. The government investigators announced plans to prosecute them.

Interrogations continued but no court cases have yet been filed. Officials said they had to have answers to some 30 questions they had addressed to Indian authorities to be able to proceed further with their investigations. This would suggest that the evidence which their interrogations had produced against the suspects was not enough to take them to court. Questions in the dossier handed over to the Indian authorities did not seem to have obvious relevance to the doings of the militants in Pakistani custody, They include for instance, questions relating to DNA tests done on the bodies of the nine terrorists killed in their encounter with the Indian security personnel, the guns they had used, testimony of the man who had witnessed the killing of the chief of the anti-terrorist squad in Mumbai, persons who had blasted the Samjhota Express, Hindu militant organisations and their killings of Indian Muslims.

The matters to which these questions related would seem to be India’s domestic concerns, and it is hard to see why Pakistanis investigating the anti-Indian militant organisations in their own country wanted the information they were demanding. One may wonder what exactly they were investigating. It was said at times that they were probing the Mumbai attacks. The event in question took place on Indian soil. One may say that normally it should have been India’s business to investigate this event. It is not at all clear why Pakistani authorities concluded that it was their business as well.

An explanation comes to mind. Pakistani officials may have wanted to cast doubt on the credibility of India’s version of the Mumbai event, to suggest that it was one-sided, biased, and partial. It is, however, not clear how this would have benefited Pakistan. Another possibility is that they wanted to find reasons to indefinitely postpone or altogether bury the project of prosecuting the militants who were said to have been involved in terrorist acts in India. Recently, India sent Pakistan answers to the questions. It is probable that Pakistani officials will find these answers to be unhelpful.

American and Indian officials have an interpretation that may be noted. Mr Richard Holbrooke, President Obama’s special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, suspects that certain officers in this country’s military and the Inter-Services Intelligence are not serious about fighting terrorism.

The Indian foreign minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, has indicated that some officials, if not the state of Pakistan, have been sponsoring anti-India terrorist operations. If these allegations are even partially correct, one cannot rule out the possibility that some of the militants, if taken to court, will say that they did what they did with the concurrence and support of Pakistani authorities. That is a chance the officials concerned will not want to take. It is then not unlikely that the stage of prosecuting those involved in the Mumbai carnage will never arrive.

If this is the way things are to go, tension between Pakistan and India will not subside. Nearly four months after Mumbai India is still feeling angry. Its officials say they have waited patiently for a satisfactory Pakistani response but their patience will exhaust some day and they will then hit back. They are not contemplating war, for that would be unacceptably destructive on both sides.

Secure in the belief that India does not have the option of going to war, Pakistani strategists do not consider it necessary to appease India and redress its grievance. Apparently they are not taking cognisance of the possibility that India may take measures short of war that may cause Pakistan a great deal of suffering. It can, for instance, interfere with the flow of water into Pakistan’s rivers, which originate in territories under India’s control, and thus ruin Pakistani agriculture and food production. Its secret agents can intervene in Pakistan’s unceasing internal turmoil to further disrupt its politics and society.

Many political observers in Pakistan believe that India has been a sworn enemy of this country from the day of its establishment as an independent state, wants to undo the partition or, failing that, it wants to destroy Pakistan.

There are doubtless certain militant Hindu groups in India that harbour such thoughts. But the same is probably not true of Indian officials, mainstream political parties and opinion makers. They see Pakistan as too troublesome a place to take over. They are reconciled to its separate existence.

It is my impression that the dominant elites in India are willing to have Pakistan as a stable neighbour at peace within itself and with the outside world. It wants Pakistan as a “good neighbour”, meaning one that accepts its position as a relatively small power, does not insist on being India’s equal and rival, and does not oppose its drive to the role and status of a world power. It wants peace and amity and close cooperative relations with Pakistan, albeit, on these terms. One doubts that these terms will commend themselves to the powers that be in Pakistan in the foreseeable future. It may then be said that relations between these two neighbours are likely to remain under some degree of stress.

 

[gubbi]

A great editorial in Dawn today on the Mumbai issue etc.

DAWN.COM | Editorial | PostMumbai-ties-with-India

Many political observers in Pakistan believe that India has been a sworn enemy of this country from the day of its establishment as an independent state, wants to undo the partition or, failing that, it wants to destroy Pakistan.

There are doubtless certain militant Hindu groups in India that harbour such thoughts. But the same is probably not true of Indian officials, mainstream political parties and opinion makers. They see Pakistan as too troublesome a place to take over. They are reconciled to its separate existence.

It is my impression that the dominant elites in India are willing to have Pakistan as a stable neighbour at peace within itself and with the outside world.

To all those trolls who complain about akhand Bharat, this should put your reservations to rest, especially the part which says "They see Pakistan as too troublesome a place to take over. They are reconciled to its separate existence." Indians are not interested in annexing Pakistani territory nor are do they want to undo partition. Its too much headache for us, plus consider the impact such an action would have on our economy. It would take years if not decades to absorb the pathetic economic conditions presently prevailing not to mention the freelance gunmen freely roaming around.

To all my bros across the border..
"Apne paair itne phelao jitna lamba chadder!"