Abu Salem is currently serving a life sentence in Taloja Jail, Mumbai, for his role in the 1993 Mumbai bombings and other cases. He was extradited from Portugal to India in 2005 and has been in Taloja Jail since then.
UN experts also condemned many other violent acts targeting the polls, including a bombing at a women's polling station on February 8 that killed two children.
The Pakistan-based news daily reported that several police stations and deputy commissioners' offices were targeted in the attacks in which six people, including a police officer and a jail warden, were injured.
The Islamic State on Thursday claimed responsibility for the bombing attack that killed 84 people in Kerman, Iran, on Wednesday, according to a post on the terror outfit's official Telegram account, The New York Times reported.
The death toll has risen to 103 in twin blasts that took place in the Iranian city of Kerman near the burial site of slain military commander Qasem Soleimani on Wednesday, CNN reported.
The political and military leadership, the Land Forces Command, the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and service members honoured the memory of those who died in the line of duty during the 2003-2008 operation for Iraq's stabilisation and reconstruction.
Nidhi Chaphekar, a former air hostess with Jet Airways and survivor of the 2016 Brussels bombings, said that no one even thought that such an attack could happen in the world, stressing that it was "horrible."
Speaking to the media reporters here over the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, the National Conference (NC) Vice President said that innocent people are being killed in Gaza bombings.
The Taliban has rejected the claims made by Pakistani officials alleging that Afghan refugees were involved in the recent suicide bombings in the country, reported TOLO News.
The UAE has strongly condemned the two terrorist bombings that took place in the provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, which resulted in multiple deaths and injuries.
A committee chaired by a retired Supreme Court judge will investigate the allegations raised by a British documentary in connection with the 2019 Easter Attacks, Colombo Gazette reported on Sunday citing Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe.