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 man charged in connection with last year’s terror attacks in Mumbai told an Indian court today that he agreed to being provided with a lawyer by the government and also repeated that he is from Pakistan.

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.