Just a day after India pushed for a speedy trial of the perpetrators of the Mumbai attack, a Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday adjourned for a week the 26/11 case involving seven suspects, including LeT's Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, as prosecution witnesses were not available to record their testimony.
Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman adjourned the trial till September 15 during a hearing held behind closed doors at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi after prosecutors told him that four prosecution witnesses were currently out of the country.
Four officials of the Federal Investigation Agency were scheduled to record their testimony during Saturday's proceedings.
The prosecutors told the judge that the officials were currently abroad for some official work, sources told PTI.
At the last hearing on September 1, an FIA official had told the court how funds were transferred from Pakistan to the US to acquire Voice over Internet Protocol connections that were used by the terrorists who stormed India's financial hub in November 2008 and killed 166 people.
The official had said that an amount of USD 250 was wired to a New Jersey-based firm to buy the VoIP connections.
He said the accused were involved in transferring the funds from Pakistan to the US.
The official also submitted records of the financial transaction in court.