India is ratcheting up pressure on Pakistan ahead of next week's terrorism trial in the U.S., releasing a document that alleges the Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency was directly involved in the attacks on Mumbai in 2008.
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- Above, school girls hold candles and signs as a tribute to those killed in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
The move comes as Pakistan is facing accusations from the U.S. and India that some element of the military must have helped hide al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who was killed last week in a secret raid by U.S. Navy SEALs on a house only four kilometers from the elite Pakistan Military Academy in Abbottabad.
A court in Chicago will begin hearings this month in the trial of seven men alleged to have aided David Coleman Headley, the Pakistani-American who has pleaded guilty of scouting sites for the Mumbai attacks, which led to the deaths of more than 160 people, including six Americans.
On Monday, India's home ministry published a document that lists details about defendants added to the charge sheet on April 25 by the U.S. Department of Justice.
These include a man known only as "Major Iqbal." The Indian document refers to him as "suspected to be a Pakistani ISI officer w [...]
