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10 Yrs Since 26/11: ‘Will Not Let Terrorists Win’, Says Trump 

10 Yrs Since 26/11: ‘Will Not Let Terrorists Win’, Says Trump 
The Taj Hotel in Mumbai 26/11 attack. 
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During an election rally in Rajasthan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday attacked Congress party, saying “there were Congress governments at the Centre and in Maharashtra and 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai.”

  • Monday, 26 November, marks ten years since the deadly terrors attacks in Mumbai.
  • At least 160 people were killed and more than 300 injured in the series of attacks led by LeT militants.
  • The Mumbai Police Commissioner has promised that the city is safe and the police can handle any terror threat.
  • Condemning the Mumbai attacks, PM Modi said in a rally that justice will be delivered to the victims.

How to Prevent Another 26/11: The Need for Trained Coastal Police

Two lawyers, Amin Solkar and Farhana Shah, who defended Ajmal Kasab in the 2008 Mumbai attack case on the directions of the Bombay High Court, are yet to get their legal fees from the Maharashtra government.

While the state government says they have not submitted any bills, the lawyers say that state prosecutors are not supposed to.

The two lawyers were tasked with defending Kasab, hanged to death on 21 November, 2012, for killing over 166 people in Mumbai, by the Maharashtra State Legal Services Department, after they were nominated by then acting Chief Justice of Bombay High Court J N Patel.

India is better prepared and better organised since a group of sea-borne terrorists struck at the heart of Mumbai 10 years back, thanks to a string of security measures including a layered maritime surveillance, Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba told PTI.

“We have come a long way since then,” he told PTI in an interview in his office in South Block on the 10th anniversary of the 26/11.

He also took a dig at the Congress, who was in power at the time, saying that while the incident had shaken up the whole country, the Congress were busy “giving lessons in patriotism”.

Invoking the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday criticised the Congress for teaching "patriotism" to opposition parties then and now, and asking the NDA government to provide proof for the 2016 surgical strikes in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

"Today is November 26... There were Congress governments at the Centre and in Maharashtra and 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai... terrorists killed people and security forces of our country.”

“I want to ask them and Congress that 10-years ago such a big terror attack happened, whole world was shocked and Congress was playing a trick to win the elections from that," Modi during an election rally in Rajasthan.

Modi also attacked Congress for preaching patriotism in 2008 but questioning the BJP on surgical strikes. "The same Congress at that time used to preach patriotism. And when our country's forces did surgical strike in Pakistan, when they took revenge, Congress asked for the evidence and demanded to show the video of the surgical strike," he said.

Amitabh Bachchan while calling terrorism a parasite said "On this very day, at the same place last year we pledged that we would never give shelter to terror, determined that this parasite called terrorism shall never breed in our homes. Today, we want our dream to be realised, to reawaken to the power of love and of oneness."

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that surveillance in Mumbai has been increased.

“We are on the path of truth. India has never attacked a country because it follows a path of truth. We have increased surveillance in Mumbai to thwart such dastardly acts in the future," he said.

He also said that a zero tolerance policy should be followed towards terrorism.

Union Minister Piyush Goyal said "It was a challenge posed to humanity by the terrorists."

In his speech, Goyal said that a retaliation to such terrorist acts cannot only be political, it has to be (vikas) development.

"The attack killed 166 innocents, including six Americans. We will never let terrorists win, or even come close to winning!" he said.

The president's comments came days after he defended his administration's decision to stop hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Pakistan for not doing enough to curb terrorism and criticised Islamabad for offering a hideout to slain al-Qaeda chief bin Laden in the garrison city of Abbottabad.

"We give Pakistan USD 1.3 billion a year... (bin Laden) lived in Pakistan, we're supporting Pakistan, we're giving them USD 1.3 billion a year -- which we don't give them anymore, by the way, I ended it because they don't do anything for us, they don't do a damn thing for us," Trump said.

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