Mumbai, Dec. 2 : Israeli hostages killed by Islamic terrorists during the attacks on Mumbaiwere tortured by their captors before they were bound together and killed, according to officials in both countries.
Doctors have expressed horror at the condition of the bodies recovered from Nariman House, which housed the Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch retreat.
"I have seen so many dead bodies in my life, and was traumatised," The Telegraph quoted a mortician at Mumbai’s J. J. Hospital, as saying.
"It was apparent that most of the dead were tortured. What shocked me were the telltale signs showing clearly how the hostages were executed in cold blood," he added.
Peshawar, Dec. 2 : The Pak-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy, NWFP chapter will visit India to decrease tension between the people of India and Pakistan in the aftermath of Mumbai terrorist attacks.
Talking to Daily Times on Monday, the forum’s chairman Khwaja Waseem said that the Mumbai chapter of Pak-India forum has invited the NWFP chapter to India on December 7 for playing its role and decreasing tension between the two nuclear neighbours caused by Mumbai terrorist attacks which killed about 200 people and injured hundreds.
According to former Pakistan cricket skipper Wasim Akram, both India and Pakistan should play a test match in terrorist-hit Mumbai.
Speaking with the media persons, Akram said, “Cricket is not on anyone's mind at the moment, but after three to four days both the countries must take a positive step. I suggest Pakistan and India play a Test in Mumbai so to give a clear message that we will not give in.”
Tel Aviv - The bodies of six Jews killed in Mumbai's terrorist attacks were returned to Israel Tuesday for burial.
An Israel Air Force plane carrying the bodies, as well as a surviving toddler, landed at Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv late Monday.
A short ceremony including a Jewish prayer for the dead was held at the airport, before the bodies were transported to Israel's Abu Kabir pathological centre for final identification.
Four of the coffins were wrapped in Israeli flags and two in Jewish prayer shawls, as four of the victims had Israeli citizenship while the remaining two did not. They include a Mexican Jew whose family lives in Israel and who had planned to immigrate to the country as well.
Mumbai, Dec. 2 : President Pratibha Devisingh Patil met a Shiv Sena delegation here on Tuesday morning.
The delegation, which was led by former Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi and party president Uddhav Thackeray, spent 15 minutes with the President, and demanded imposition of President’s Rule in the state of Maharashtra.
They told Patil that the state of law and order in Maharashtra was abysmal, and this had been proved by last week’s attacks by terrorists.
They said that the people of Maharashtra had lost confidence in the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party coalition government headed by Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh.
According to former Pakistan cricket skipper Wasim Akram, both India and Pakistan should play a test match in terrorist-hit Mumbai. 
