A message the sole surviving Mumbai massacre gunman hoped to get to his backers in Pakistan was ordered to be kept secret by a judge in India today.

India today demanded the arrest of 22 Pakistanis it accused of masterminding last year’s Mumbai terrorist attacks.

SOMETIMES breaking into laughter, the man accused of being the lone surviving gunman in last year’s Mumbai attacks told an Indian court yesterday that he was from Pakistan and wanted legal assistance, officials said.

The only surviving Mumbai massacre gunman has personally stated he is Pakistani in the face of efforts by Islamabad to distance itself from the terror attack.

India’s prime minister today said he wants “normalised” relations with Pakistan amid rising tensions between the South Asian rivals over the Mumbai attacks.

The Pakistani-based militant group blamed for the Mumbai attacks kept an Indian militant as a “pointman” to shepherd gunmen across the porous border, police said.

A suspected mastermind behind the Mumbai massacre has been caught in a raid on a militant camp in Pakistani Kashmir.

Pakistani troops seized a camp used by the extremist group blamed in the Mumbai attacks and arrested more than 12 people, militants and a security official said today.

The only gunman captured during the terror attack on Mumbai said he was promised that his impoverished family would get around €990 if he died fighting for militant Islam, security officials said today.

Authorities finished the gruesome task of removing bodies from the Taj Mahal hotel today, the final site of the Mumbai siege to be cleared.

A senior Mumbai police official said the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was responsible for the terrorist attacks that left at least 174 people dead.

A little-known Islamic militant group that claimed responsibility for Mumbai’s train bombings warned of more attacks today, as investigators questioned Muslim preachers in India’s remote north-east about the blasts.

Indian authorities today named a third suspect in this week’s Mumbai train bombings, as the local media said the well-co-ordinated attacks that killed 200 people were planned by Pakistan’s main intelligence agency. Pakistan has denied the charge.

THE Indian authorities yesterday detained 350 people for questioning amid suspicion that Kashmiri militants could be linked to the Mumbai commuter train bombings.

Indian police have rounded up about 350 people in connection with the Mumbai train bombings amid suspicion that Kashmiri militants could be linked to the attacks that killed at least 200 people.

Indian police have detained four men for questioning about bombings that killed 20 people at a temple and train station in Hinduism’s holiest city, a top state official said today.

Indian police have arrested an alleged Kashmiri militant whom they believe planned the October 29 triple bombings in New Delhi and are now hunting for seven others including the bombers, an official said in New Delhi today.

Indian investigators have made their first breakthrough in the investigation into the October 29 New Delhi bombings, linking the attacks to Kashmiri rebel groups, intelligence officials said today.

A CALLER yesterday claimed that a little-known Islamic group in the Kashmir insurgency was behind terror bombings that killed at least 59 people at two crowded markets on Saturday in India’s capital.

Investigators detained more than 150 people during raids on dozens of small hotels across the Indian capital today as they hunted for suspects in three terrorist bombings that killed at least 61 people in two crowded markets, according to reports.

Indian police have arrested a Pakistani who is accused of plotting to kidnap cricket stars Sachin Tendulkar and Saurav Ganguly.

Pakistan said today it had arrested the outspoken former leader of a militant Islamic group accused by India of helping orchestrate an attack on its Parliament that has taken the two countries to the brink of hostilities.

The Indian government has demanded that Pakistan crack down on two Kashmir militant groups, one of which it has blamed for yesterday’s attack on the parliament building in New Delhi.

Islamic guerrillas ambushed a paramilitary patrol truck and killed seven soldiers in strife-torn Jammu-Kashmir, and lost one of their own when the troops fired back, officials said today.