Terrorism

NEW DELHI - The Pakistan Army was involved in the Mumbai terrorist attack, India's National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon told the US, according to fresh US embassy cables leaked by WikiLeaks.

NEW DELHI - A US embassy cable from here says it often discreetly contacts Delhi Police officers to get information about terror investigations.

TORONTO - Toughening Canada's much criticized lenient stand on terrorism Friday, a court of appeal here raised sentences of terrorists jailed in the famous Toronto-18 plot. The Al-Qaeda-inspired Toronto-18 terror plot was uncovered with the arrest of 18 Muslims, mostly of Pakistani origin, in June 2006.

MELBOURNE - Mohamed Haneef, an Indian doctor who was falsely accused by Australian police of aiding terrorists, has said he still thinks Australia is a good place to live and work.

DHAKA - A Bangladeshi intelligence agency supported the idea of an Islamist terrorist group forming a political party as the South Asian country was being governed by a military-backed administration two years ago, media Friday quoted WikiLeaks documents as saying.