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26/11 trial: 7 accused in Pak hire new lawyers

The accused have hired Islamabad-based lawyers to defend them in the case.

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The seven Pakistani accu-sed in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case,including LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi,on Sunday appoi-nted two new lawyers to carry forward the long-delayed trial,a day after advocates Khawaja Haris and Riaz Akram Cheema separated themselves from the case citing “personal reasons”.

The accused have hired Islamabad-based Zahid Hussain Tirmizi and Raja Rizwan Abbasi to defend them in the case being heard by an anti-terrorism court in Islamabad.

All the seven accused — Lakhvi,Abdul Wajid,Maz-har Iqbal,Hammad Amin Sadiq,Shahid Jameel Riaz,Jamil Ahmed and Younas Anjum — were arrested in July 2009 for their alleged role in the November 26,2008 attacks in Mumbai in which 166 people were killed.

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