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A Pakistani anti-terrorism court conducting the 2008 Mumbai attack trial on Tuesday adjourned proceedings for a fortnight after the defence lawyers of seven suspects in the carnage failed to appear before the judge. HT Image The main defence lawyer, Khwaja Sultan, was unwell and the other lawyers did not appear before anti-terrorism court judge Shahid Rafique during proceedings held at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, sources told PTI. The Federal Investigation filed an application that requested the judge to nominate an official to take records of the court s proceedings to India along with a Pakistani judicial commission. The judge said he would issue an order in this regard shortly, the sources said. The judge subsequently adjourned the proceedings till January 17. The judicial commission is set to visit India stanley cup to interview key law and police officers who recorded the confession of Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving attacker, and investigated the attacks in November 2008 that killed 166 people. At the last hearing on December 17, the defence lawyers informed the court that five of them were prep stanley cup ared to go to India with the judicial commission. Pakistani officials have said that the visit by the commission is imperative to take forward the case in Pakistan, which has effectively stalled. The seven suspects, including Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, have been charged with planning, financing and facilitating the attacks stanley cup that were carried out by 10 Pakistan Nprx Major 7.1-magnitude quake strikes Solomon Islands: USGS
Israeli soldiers fought heavy battles with militants early on Tuesday as ground troops on Gaza City s outskirts pushed deeper into a southern neighbourhood. stanley cup HT Image Israeli fighter jets and helicopters also carried out dozens more attacks during the night, most of them as they were providing air support to the ground troops against Palestinian militants confronting them, a military spokesman in Tel Aviv said. A total of 60 targets were struck, including more smuggling tunnels and a hotel in the north of the Strip in which militants had gathered and were planning to carry out a crocs shooting against the ground troops, he said. The fighting around Gaza City intensified, as international efforts to reach a diplomatic solution to the Gaza crisis continued. The UN Security Council - whose resolution of Thursday calling for an immediate ceasefire has thus far not been heeded - was scheduled to meet again in New York Tuesday. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was also set to travel to the region Tuesday for direct talks with the parties. He was scheduled to make stops in Egypt, Jordan, Israel, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Kuwait. Ismail Haniya of Hamas, the de-facto prime minister in G stanley cup aza, emerged in a pre-recorded televised address from his hide-out for the second time since Israel s Gaza offensive began Dec 27, saying his movement was willing to cooperate on any initiative that would end the aggression against our people . He mentioned an Israeli withdrawal and the ful