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BRONZE 3 high commissioner. MEA expressed its displeasure over the lack of progress in the prosecution of Lashkar’s military commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and six others for their involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people.
In the five and a half years since the devastating terror strikes directed from a control room in Karachi, where Lakhvi was also present, little progress has been made to bring the perpetrators to justice. In a calibrated
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Hunt for boxing medals begins. Vijender Singh and Manoj Kumar win first bouts. They face an uphill task after being isolated internationally due to the administrative mess at home 7 >>P23 >>P23 effort, India also sent its Islamabad-based deputy high commissioner to Pakistan’s foreign office to protest the repeated delays. The trial has seen seven adjournments in quick succession, the last being on July 23.
Aziz, however, contended that the Sharif government has tried hard to push the case against the Lashkar accused. “We sent a judicial commission to India and have recorded statements of all witnesses. We have done a lot more than the previous (Zardari) government.”
Senior officials in the Pakistan establishment privately concede that the level of fear among the judges is massive. One top official told HT that “the judges are scared of being killed and the pressure on them is immense. Lashkar supporters regularly throng the court room in an attempt to intimidate the judges.”
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