India executes last Mumbai terror attacker

Mohammed Ajmal Kasab was hanged four years after Pakistani gunmen blazed through India’s financial capital, killing 166 people.

Kasab, a Pakistani, was executed in secrecy at a jail in Pune, a city near Mumbai, after his plea for clemency was rejected.

News of the execution was widely cheered in India but for those more deeply touched by the events of 26/11, as the attack is known there, the hanging offered only a partial relief.

“This is an incomplete justice as the masterminds and main handlers of 26/11 are still absconding,” said Kavita Karkare, the widow of Hemant Karkare, the chief of Mumbai’s anti-terrorism squad who was killed while pursuing Kasab.