Pak: 26/11 case adjourned again, witnesses fail to appear
January 19, 2013  16:42
The trial of seven suspects in Pakistan charged with involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks was adjourned for three weeks on Saturday after three prosecution witnesses were unable to appear for cross-examination.

Anti-terrorism court judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman, who is conducting the hearing inside Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi for security reasons, put off the case till February 9, prosecutors and defence lawyers told PTI.

The prosecution witnesses were unable to appear for the hearing as they could not travel from Karachi to Rawalpindi due to the cancellation of flights following unrest in the southern port city over the murder of a politician, sources. 

There have been no proceedings in the case for the past four weeks.

At a hearing on December 22, the judge adjourned the case for three weeks at the request of defence lawyers.

On January 12, the case was put off for a week as Khwaja Haris Ahmed, the counsel for Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, was observing his father's death anniversary. 
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