Anti-terrorism court conducting the trial of seven men charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks Saturday issued summons to a senior investigator even as six prosecution witnesses failed to appear before the judge. Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman, who is conducting the trial behind closed doors at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi for security reasons, issued the summons for Altaf Hussain, a Karachi-based Additional Director of the Federal Investigation Agency. Prosecutors described Hussain as an “important witness” in the case against the seven accused, including Lashkar-e-Taiba c

Indian police said on Friday they had arrested an Islamist militant who was allegedly planning to carry out "suicide attacks" in New Delhi after travelling to India from Pakistan via Nepal. S.N. Srivastava, who heads an anti-terrorism unit, identified the suspect as Syed Liaqat Shah from Indian-administered Kashmir who had come from Pakistan to Nepal on a Pakistani passport. "He was instructed to recruit people, choose targets and organise suicide attacks in New Delhi," Srivastava told a news conference in the Indian capital.

Police in Indian-administered Kashmir Tuesday said they had arrested four people including a Pakistani national from the Lashkar-e-Toiba militant group over an attack that left five policemen dead. Abdul Gani Mir, Kashmir's top law enforcement officer, said investigators had concluded that the attack was planned by Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), a Pakistan-based group blamed for mass killings in Mumbai in 2008. "The arrested include Zubair alias Talha Zarar of Lashkar-e-Toiba who came from Multan (in Pakistan)," inspector general of police Mir told reporters.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday appealed for calm as he flew to Hyderabad and visited some of the 117 people wounded in twin bombings last week which killed 16 people. Singh also visited the blast site in Dilsukh Nagar, where two bicycle bombs exploded within a few minutes of each other outside a cinema and near a bus stand on Thursday evening. The prime minister met with some of the blast survivors and medical staff in two city hospitals and expressed his condolences.