NEW DELHI — In the beginning, they were 32. A squad of suicide bombers assembled in Pakistan, they were taught how to make bombs, withstand interrogation, and fight to their death.
They were whittled down to 10, and on a Saturday morning in November, they set sail from Karachi with coordinates plotted on a global positioning set. Once in Mumbai, they went on a killing spree, leaving 163 dead, all the while receiving detailed instructions and pep talks from their handlers across the border.
These are some of the details of their …

NEW DELHI (AP) — Pakistani authorities “must have had” a hand in the deadly Mumbai siege, India’s prime minister said Tuesday, stopping just short of directly accusing Islamabad of aiding the gunmen.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh repeated India’s allegations that the attack was carried out by the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. But in his most forceful speech since the November attacks, he also said “there is enough evidence to show that, given the sophistication and military precision of the attack, it must have had the support of some official agencies in …

The reported movement of troops toward Pakistan’s border with India on Friday raised the threat of war between the two nuclear-armed rivals and will distract Pakistan from fighting Taliban-led militants, security analysts said.
The specter of war also may be exaggerated to reduce international pressure on Pakistan to crack down on a militant group blamed for the deadly Mumbai attacks last month, analysts said.
Regardless, even the reports of troop movements made the crisis much more serious than before and could undo most of the progress the two countries had made in …

WASHINGTON: Due to India’s war rhetoric and potentially dangerous military moves, Pakistanis must be reassured that the country, though committed to fighting terrorism, is prepared to defend itself against any aggression, Islamabad’s envoy in Washington told CNN on Saturday.
Hussain Haqqani said Pakistan wanted to pursue terrorists in the border areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan rather than go to war with India, adding the country also wanted to work with New Delhi to capture terrorists who were responsible for the Mumbai attacks.
“That said, over the last few days, we have reason …

New Delhi, India (AHN) – Indian military is ready for an operations against “precision” targets in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, if the neighboring country fails to cooperate in pinning down the terrorists in its country, according to a report by a U.S. private intelligence company.
Pakistan is under pressure from the West and the Indian government to dismantle terrorists cells and crack down on Islamic militants, who seeked safe haven in the country.

NEW DELHI, India (CNN) — The only surviving suspect in last month’s attacks in Mumbai has written a letter to the Pakistan High Commission, or embassy, seeking legal aid, CNN’s sister network in India reported Saturday, quoting a Mumbai police official.
Investigators said that Mohammad Ajmal Kasab is from Faridkot village in the Okara district of Pakistan’s Punjab province and that the other nine attackers also are from Pakistan. Pakistani officials have denied that assertion, blaming instead “stateless actors.”

NEW DELHI (AFP) — India said Thursday that South Asia stood “in the eye of the storm of terror” as the surviving attacker from the bloody Mumbai siege was remanded in custody accused of making war on the country.
In a statement to parliament here, Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram announced wide-reaching reforms to security laws and national infrastructure aimed at preventing future attacks by militants.
They include measures to fix intelligence lapses and “logistical weakness” that emerged during the 60-hour siege in which 172 people died, including nine gunmen.

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EXPLOSIVES were yesterday found in Mumbai’s main train station, which police said were left over from last week’s attacks.
The bomb squad defused the two 8lb bombs, said Bapu Domre, the assistant commissioner of police, but it was not clear last night why they had not been found earlier.

Thai protesters are leaving the prime minister’s office after a three-month sit-in, moving instead to reinforce a paralysing anti-government blockade of the country’s two airports.
Leaders of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) trying to force Somchai Wongsawat, the prime minister, to resign said on Monday they were worried by recent grenade attacks.
The attacks have killed two protesters and wounded dozens more at Government House, the prime minister’s office, in the capital Bangkok.

The chief minister of the Indian state of Maharashtra has offered to resign after his deputy stepped down over the devastating attacks on the state capital Mumbai.
“I have offered to resign,” Vilasrao Deshmukh told reporters on Monday.
“If the responsibility of the attacks is on the chief minister, then I will go. The final decision is with the high command,” he said, referring to the leadership of the ruling Congress Party.