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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Today Nov 26,2013 is the 5th anniversary of the Mumbai terror attack

  
Today Nov 26,2013 is the 5th anniversary of the Mumbai terror attack



 Indian Railway Police

 sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik gives finishing touches to a sand sculpture of Hotel Taj

The 2008 Mumbai attacks were twelve coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai,Maharashtra,India, by members of Lashkar-e-Taiba

 
Ajmal Kasab,the only attacker who was captured alive, later confessed upon interrogation that the attacks were conducted with the support of Pakistan's

The attacks, which drew widespread global condemnation, began on Wednesday, 26 November and lasted until Saturday, 29 November 2008, killing 164 people and wounding at least 308

Pakistan's Information Minister Sherry Rehman officially accepted Ajmal Kasab's nationality as Pakistani

On  February 12,2009, Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik asserted that parts of the attack had been planned in Pakistan

A Trial Court on May 06,2010 sentenced Ajmal Kasab to death on all the 86 charges for which he was convicted

On his appeal against this verdict,Bombay HC  on February 21,2011 and the Supreme Court of India on August 29,2012 upheld his death sentence

Ajmal Kasab was executed by hanging at Yerwada Jail in Pune on November 21,2012

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