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Just honestly tell me all Pakistanis. Do Pakistanis speak like that? "Allah kasam maaf karna. Aisi galati dobara nahi hogi 
Ajmal Kasab hanged: A puppet's life ends on a string - The Times of India on Mobile
MUMBAI: Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab exited this world as stealthily as he had entered Mumbai four years ago. The lone surviving gunman of 26/11 was hanged to death in Pune's Yerawada jail at 7.30am on Wednesday in an extremely hush-hush operation.
Asked for his last wish, the 25-year-old terrorist from Faridkot village in Pakistan's Punjab province said: "Gharwalon ko milna hai (I want to meet my family members)." He was told the Islamabad government had been informed about his hanging but had failed to respond. As his hands and legs were tied, his last words, according to officials who witnessed the hanging, were: "Allah kasam maaf karna. Aisi galati dobara nahi hogi...(Allah, please forgive me, this mistake won't happen again)."
Sources said Kasab was babbling incoherently before the hangman pulled the lever at Yerawada, about 150km from Mumbai's Arthur Road Jail, his home for four years. His body was buried in a pit in the prison premises as there were no claimants. He was convicted in May 2010 by a special judge for murdering seven people directly with his AK-47 and 65 others in common intent with fellow terrorist Ismail. He was also found guilty of being part of a Lashkar-e-Taiba conspiracy that led to 166 deaths. The Mumbai high court in February 2011 and the Supreme Court in August this year upheld the sentence.
How Kasab came to be hanged as most of India slept is as dramatic a tale as the unfortunate cycle of terror he and his nine other terrorists unleashed across Mumbai landmarks on November 26, 2008.
On November 7, two days after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected Kasab's clemency petition, Shinde, home secretary R K Singh and sleuths from the Intelligence Bureau drafted 'Operation X' to execute him. "It was a top-secret operation. Only a few bureaucrats and high-ranking IPS officers were involved," Shinde told TOI.
The next day, Shinde sent the file to the Maharashtra government and advised the state home department to hang Kasab on November 21. Incidentally, R R Patil, the state home minister, went on record on Wednesday to say that Kasab's 'death warrant' had been drawn up in consultation with the additional sessions judge two months earlier, on September 11, after the Supreme Court upheld his death penalty.
Next came the task of preparing Kasab for the gallows. Mumbai police commissioner Satya Pal Singh, joint commissioners Himanshu Roy, Sadanand Date and inspector general of prisons Vinod Lokhande were handpicked to execute the plan. "All along, we were told that the world should learn about Kasab's hanging only after the execution," a top IPS officer said.
The state at one point toyed with the idea of air-lifting Kasab to the Pune prison. But a senior cabinet minister said that the plan was nixed in view of the permissions required for carrying arms on a plane. Finally, it was decided to shift Kasab in a car.
DGP Sanjeev Dayal called a handful of officers and told them that they had less than 10 days to transfer Kasab from the Arthur Road jail for undertrials to the Yerawada prison for convicts.
The operation should be airtight, he stressed. "Such secrecy was needed because we were anticipating international pressure to reconsider the death penalty," said a top government official. (TOI was the only paper to report, in its November 21 edition, that Kasab may have been secretly moved to Yerawada).
The team handpicked the officials, comprising mostly commandos from the anti-terrorist Force One, to escort Kasab out of the city. "Only a few of them were briefed about the prisoner's identity. Most of the commandos and members of the para-military units were clueless till Wednesday morning that they had accompanied Kasab," another source said.
The team then got cracking on the six-stage plan involving a posse of vehicles and a troop of commandos. The first began with Kasab leaving Arthur Road jail at 1.38am on Tuesday and the last ended at 4.34am the same morning, when he entered Yerawada.
Each stage had a different code name and the bosses were briefed about the success at the end of every leg. "We basically ensured that there were no traffic blocks on the road and no attack on him," an official added.
Investigating officer Ramesh Mahale accompanied Kasab as he was the only face familiar to the terrorist. In Pune, too, arrangements were made with the local police to ensure that the convoy reached the jail without any hitch.
"It was early morning so everything went smoothly," a source said. Senior officers monitoring the operation went to sleep only after they received information that Kasab had reached Yerawada jail safely.
While the drama was unfolding, a huge posse of policemen continued guarding Arthur Road's prized prisoner without realizing that he had left hours ago.
Ajmal Kasab hanged: A puppet's life ends on a string - The Times of India on Mobile
MUMBAI: Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab exited this world as stealthily as he had entered Mumbai four years ago. The lone surviving gunman of 26/11 was hanged to death in Pune's Yerawada jail at 7.30am on Wednesday in an extremely hush-hush operation.
Asked for his last wish, the 25-year-old terrorist from Faridkot village in Pakistan's Punjab province said: "Gharwalon ko milna hai (I want to meet my family members)." He was told the Islamabad government had been informed about his hanging but had failed to respond. As his hands and legs were tied, his last words, according to officials who witnessed the hanging, were: "Allah kasam maaf karna. Aisi galati dobara nahi hogi...(Allah, please forgive me, this mistake won't happen again)."
Sources said Kasab was babbling incoherently before the hangman pulled the lever at Yerawada, about 150km from Mumbai's Arthur Road Jail, his home for four years. His body was buried in a pit in the prison premises as there were no claimants. He was convicted in May 2010 by a special judge for murdering seven people directly with his AK-47 and 65 others in common intent with fellow terrorist Ismail. He was also found guilty of being part of a Lashkar-e-Taiba conspiracy that led to 166 deaths. The Mumbai high court in February 2011 and the Supreme Court in August this year upheld the sentence.
How Kasab came to be hanged as most of India slept is as dramatic a tale as the unfortunate cycle of terror he and his nine other terrorists unleashed across Mumbai landmarks on November 26, 2008.
On November 7, two days after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected Kasab's clemency petition, Shinde, home secretary R K Singh and sleuths from the Intelligence Bureau drafted 'Operation X' to execute him. "It was a top-secret operation. Only a few bureaucrats and high-ranking IPS officers were involved," Shinde told TOI.
The next day, Shinde sent the file to the Maharashtra government and advised the state home department to hang Kasab on November 21. Incidentally, R R Patil, the state home minister, went on record on Wednesday to say that Kasab's 'death warrant' had been drawn up in consultation with the additional sessions judge two months earlier, on September 11, after the Supreme Court upheld his death penalty.
Next came the task of preparing Kasab for the gallows. Mumbai police commissioner Satya Pal Singh, joint commissioners Himanshu Roy, Sadanand Date and inspector general of prisons Vinod Lokhande were handpicked to execute the plan. "All along, we were told that the world should learn about Kasab's hanging only after the execution," a top IPS officer said.
The state at one point toyed with the idea of air-lifting Kasab to the Pune prison. But a senior cabinet minister said that the plan was nixed in view of the permissions required for carrying arms on a plane. Finally, it was decided to shift Kasab in a car.
DGP Sanjeev Dayal called a handful of officers and told them that they had less than 10 days to transfer Kasab from the Arthur Road jail for undertrials to the Yerawada prison for convicts.
The operation should be airtight, he stressed. "Such secrecy was needed because we were anticipating international pressure to reconsider the death penalty," said a top government official. (TOI was the only paper to report, in its November 21 edition, that Kasab may have been secretly moved to Yerawada).
The team handpicked the officials, comprising mostly commandos from the anti-terrorist Force One, to escort Kasab out of the city. "Only a few of them were briefed about the prisoner's identity. Most of the commandos and members of the para-military units were clueless till Wednesday morning that they had accompanied Kasab," another source said.
The team then got cracking on the six-stage plan involving a posse of vehicles and a troop of commandos. The first began with Kasab leaving Arthur Road jail at 1.38am on Tuesday and the last ended at 4.34am the same morning, when he entered Yerawada.
Each stage had a different code name and the bosses were briefed about the success at the end of every leg. "We basically ensured that there were no traffic blocks on the road and no attack on him," an official added.
Investigating officer Ramesh Mahale accompanied Kasab as he was the only face familiar to the terrorist. In Pune, too, arrangements were made with the local police to ensure that the convoy reached the jail without any hitch.
"It was early morning so everything went smoothly," a source said. Senior officers monitoring the operation went to sleep only after they received information that Kasab had reached Yerawada jail safely.
While the drama was unfolding, a huge posse of policemen continued guarding Arthur Road's prized prisoner without realizing that he had left hours ago.
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