An anti-terrorism court adjourned the trial of seven Pakistani suspects charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks for three weeks after defence lawyers and prosecutors did not attend proceedings on Saturday.
Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman, who was conducting the trial in Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, put off the case till January 12 after Special Prosecutor Chaudhry Zulifqar Ali and lawyers defending the suspects did not attend the proceedings due to various reasons, according to sources.
The special prosecutor had to attend a funeral while the reasons for the absence of the defence lawyers could not be immediately ascertained.
