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Lashkar-e-Taiba co-founder Amir Hamza was shot at in Lahore after a TV appearance, with assailants escaping on motorcycles. The attack, which bore similarities to a Bollywood film scene, has drawn condemnation from Hafiz Saeed's party, which questioned the Punjab government's security. Hamza, designated a terrorist by the US, previously headed LeT's special campaigns.

A Delhi court has handed down life imprisonment to Kashmiri separatist leader Asiya Andrabi for conspiring against the state. Her associates, Sofi Fehmeeda and Nahida Nasreen, received 30-year sentences. The court found they plotted Kashmir's secession from India, using speeches and social media to advocate for its merger with Pakistan and portray it as under illegal occupation.

How newspapers across the world carried the news of 26/11 Mumbai attacker ajmal kasab's execution.

If records at Bidhoona tehsil in UP's Auraiya district are to be believed, ajmal kasab, the 26/11 Mumbai attack convict who was hanged at Yerwada jail in Pune on November 21, 2012, has been issued a domicile certificate. The district authorities have cancelled the domicile certificate and suspended the concerned revenue officer before ordering a probe in this regard.

The two lawyers -- Amin Solkar and Farhana Shah -- were tasked with defending Kasab, hanged to death on November 21, 2012 for killing over 166 people in Mumbai, by the Maharashtra State Legal Services Department after they were nominated by then acting Chief Justice of Bombay High Court J N Patel.

Panic triggered in the bar association office of Ghaziabad after a piece of paper was found pasted calling ajmal kasab a martyr with a threat to bomb the court complex in the afternoon.

ajmal kasab has a little over a month to mull his fate. If special trial judge M L Tahaliyani holds the slightly built ajmal kasab guilty, the Pakistani would have the option of appealing the verdict.

The order to hang ajmal kasab is believed to be the second quickest in the country after the case of Banswara-based Ramchandra alias Raoji who was executed within three years of murdering his family.

ajmal kasab’s stay in Arthur Road jail continues to escalate the state’s cost. Delay in procuring permissions from various authorities for the monorail project—which will pass outside the jail—has increased its cost by Rs 13 crore.

The sole convict in the 26/11 attacks case, Mohammad ajmal kasab, on Tuesday contended before the Supreme Court that he was not given a free and fair trial.

Both Centre and Maharashtra have spent around Rs 29.5 crores on ajmal kasab to provide him food, security, medicines and clothes during his confinement.

The Bombay high court on Wednesday dismissed an application filed by alleged LeT operative Abu Jundal to shift him out of the prison cell where 26/11 terrorist ajmal kasab was lodged before he was hanged.

The execution of 26/11 convict, ajmal kasab was also hailed by the family members of Major Kush, who had led one of the three teams of NSG (National Security Guard) commandoes near Nariman point in Mumbai on November 26, 2008.

A special MCOCA court on Monday rejected the plea seeking transfer of suspected LeT operative Zabihuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal from the cell where ajmal kasab was lodged for four years.

It was reported in March that actor Aarya Babbar will be playing ajmal kasab, the prime accused in the 26/11 Mumbai blast. But the actor has now denied that he is playing the dreaded terrorist.

Many questions are being raised over the timing of ajmal kasab's execution a day ahead of Parliament's winter session, but the date for it — November 21 — was actually set over two months ago.

Four years after the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai, the heroes who helped capture terrorist ajmal kasab believe justice has finally been done with his hanging.

While every one welcomed the decision in their own style, Lakshmi Manchu however, didn't seem too happy with the hanging.

India will allow Pakistan to provide legal assistance to ajmal kasab, the only surviving Mumbai carnage terrorist arrested, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said.

Soon after convicted terrorist, ajmal kasab, was hanged in a Pune prison, the state police issued an alert to all the police stations, especially those in Mumbai and Pune, and security agencies asking them to be on high alert.

Pakistan's interior ministry chief Rehman Malik said there is no question of consular access unless it is proved that Kasab is a Pakistan national.

Public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam told the 26/11 court that killing 166 people in the Mumbai terror strikes was rarest of the rare case fit for awarding death sentence to ajmal kasab.

The role of top Lashkar jihadis was mentioned also by ajmal kasab, the lone Mumbai gunman to have been captured.

Following the execution of ajmal kasab on Wednesday morning in Pune, the BSF has been put on high alert at the international border adjoining Pakistan.

Although speculation swirled on Wednesday that Pakistani interior minister Rehman Malik's proposed visit to India on November 22-23 was cancelled with ajmal kasab's impending execution in mind, sources in the government insisted that it was at most a contributory factor.

ajmal kasab, the lone surviving terrorist involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks who has been hanged to death, received due process of law in a full and transparent trial, the US said, asserting that it wants to see the terrorists behind 26/11 brought to justice.

Home minister Anil Deshmukh made the announcement while speaking to reporters outside the state legislature here. "Tukaram Omble, who was martyred during the 26/11 attacks, and 14 other policemen had captured (terrorist) ajmal kasab alive. The government has decided to proffer one rank promotion to the 14 policemen for showing historic valour," he said.