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| Areas of Attack |
6 Years have passed. Though it still bears like a nightmare in the dreams of all the Indians and more for them who was present at Mumbai at that time. Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Hemant karkare, Vijay Salaskar, Ashok Kamte and many more sacrificed their life to save the country.
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| Taj Hotel under attack |
A series of twelve coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days occurred across Mumbai carried out by Pakistani members of Lashkar e Taiba Ajmal Kasabh, the only attacker who was captured alive, later confessed upon interrogation that the attacks were conducted with the support of Pakistan Government's intelligence agency ISI The involvement of Pakistan's ISI was also supported by statements made by David Hedley, an U.S. citizen of Pakistani origin, though an ISI spokesman denied any involvement in the attacks. 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.
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| NSG commandoes in action to recover the hostages |
Eight of the attacks occurred in South Mumbai: at Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the Oberoi Trident the Taj Mahal Palace and tower. Leopold Cafe, Cama Hospital (a women and children's hospital), the Nariman house Jewish community centre, the Metro Cinema and in a lane behind the Times of India building and St. Xaviers College. There was also an explosion atMazagaon, in Mumbai's port area, and in a taxi at Vile Parle By the early morning of 28 November, all sites except for the Taj Hotel had been secured by Mumbai Police and security forces. On 29 November, India's National Security Gurads (NSG) conducted 'Operation Black Tornado' to flush out the remaining attackers; it resulted in the deaths of the last remaining attackers at the Taj Hotel and ending all fighting in the attacks.
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| Ahmal Kasab |
Ajmal Kasab disclosed that the attackers were members
of Lashkar-e-Taiba, among others. The Government
of India said that the attackers
came from Pakistan, and their controllers were in Pakistan. On 7 January 2009, Pakistan's Information Minister Sherry Rehman officially accepted Ajmal Kasab's
nationality as Pakistani. On 12
February 2009, Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik asserted that parts of
the attack had been planned in Pakistan. A
trial court on 6 May 2010 sentenced Ajmal Kasab to death on all the 86 charges for which he was
convicted. On his appeal against
this verdict, Bombay High Court on 21 February 2011[26] and Supreme Court of India on 29 August 2012 upheld his death
sentence. Kasab was executed by
hanging at Yerwada Jail in Pune on 21 November 2012.
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