Pakistan charges seven involved in Mumbai raids

PAKISTAN charged seven men involved in last year’s Mumbai attacks yesterday, its first indictment in a case being monitored by India and the United States to see if Islamabad makes good on promises to bring those responsible to justice.

Despite a crackdown in the months following the attacks, analysts say Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistani militant group blamed for the three-day assault on the financial centre that killed 166 people, remains active and largely untouched by Pakistani authorities.

The Mumbai attacks halted a slow-moving peace process between Pakistan and India, which have fought three wars since gaining independence from Britain in 1947, aimed at resolving their core dispute over Kashmir.