Bollywood celebrities took to Twitter to pay tribute on the eleventh anniversary of the dark day of history 26/11 when the cowardly Mumbai terror attack shook the world.
"Eleven years ago, a cowardly act of terrorism took the lives of 166 people, including six US citizens," State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said in a tweet on the 11th anniversary of the attack.
Ties between India and Pakistan have remained tense since the 2008 Mumbai terror attack and nosedived after the Uri and Pulwama terror attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists in September 2016 and February 2019 respectively, in which many soldiers had lost their lives.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accused the previous Congress government of failing to act after terror attacks in Mumbai.
Pakistan authorities on Wednesday booked Hafiz Saeed, chief of Jamaa-ud-Dawa and others in terror funding cases, amid growing international pressure to act against militant groups. Hafiz Saeed is a mastermind of deadly 26/11 Mumbai terror attack in 2008.
Her statement comes two days after Sam Pitroda, chief of Indian Overseas Congress, asked the government to come out with "more facts" on the Balakot air strikes.
Rana, 58, a resident of Chicago, was arrested in 2009 on the charges of plotting the 26/11 terror attack. In 2013, Rana was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release by US District Judge Harry Leinenweber.
The Army Chief's response came following Pak PM Imran Khan's statement acknowledging that the Mumbai terror attack was perpetrated by LeT.
In the barbaric attack unleashed on November 26, 2008 by 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) suicide attackers from from Pakistan, 166 people, six of whom were US nationals, were killed.
The ceremony, organised in the memory of the Mumbai terror attack victims, began with observance of one-minute silence.
Baby Moshe lost his parents-father Rabbi Gavriel and mother Rivka, who was five months pregnant at the time ten years back when LeT terrorists stormed into Nariman House, Mumbai's Chabad Lubavitch Jewish centre.
India TV's senior journalist Saurav Sharma, who was at the front lines for over 60 hours to provide the continuous coverage of the terror attacks, shared his experience with Pratyush Ranjan (Editor-News, India TV Digital).
Ten years after the Mumbai terror attacks, memories are still fresh in minds and hearts of those who witnessed the horror first hand. India TV's senior journalist Saurav Sharma, who was at the front lines for over 60 hours to provide the continuous c
US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo announced that Washington will reward up to USD 5 million for information leading to arrest or conviction of any individual involved in 2008 Mumbai terror attack
The Trump Administration announced this major reward (of more than Rs 35 crores) on the 10th anniversary of the terror attack in which 10-Pakistan based LeT terrorist went on a shooting rampage in India’s financial hub killing 166 people, including six Americans.
The United States is committed to seeing that those responsible for the attack face justice, said Pompeo.
Prominent locations--Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, Hotel Taj Mahal Palace and Tower, Hotel Trident, Nariman House, Leopold Cafe, Cama Hospital, Wadi Bunder--were targeted, while a bomb exploded at suburban Vile Parle in a taxi.
Some 166 people, including Americans, were killed in the attack carried out by 10 LeT terrorists. Nine of the attackers were killed by police while lone survivor Ajmal Kasab was captured and hanged after handed down death sentence by an Indian court.
On being asked about the possibility of terrorists taking the sea route again to mount a similar attack on India, he said, "The country is now better prepared and better organised."
The 26/11 attack case has entered into the 10th year but none of its seven suspects in Pakistan has been punished yet, showing that the case had never been in its priority list.
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