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Rana, a native of Pakistan, was found not guilty of providing support for the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks in which more than 160 people were killed, including six Americans.
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Players from Pakistan have also not been allowed to take part in the IPL tournament since 2009, following the November 2008 terrorist attacks on Mumbai, which were blamed on Pakistan-based militants.
BBC: IPL cricket: India's Tamil Nadu bars Sri Lanka players
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Following the November 2008 attacks on Mumbai - which India blamed on Pakistani-based militants - Pakistan said it would not allow its cricketers to travel to India for the 2009 tournament which ended up being played in South Africa.
BBC: Third Indian Premier League begins with a whimper
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Two years later he was again put under house arrest, this time following the Mumbai attacks of November 2008.
BBC: Profile: Hafiz Saeed - Pakistan's $10m 'bounty man'
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The blast came a day after India and Pakistan agreed to meet for talks in Delhi - their first formal negotiations since the Mumbai attacks of November 2008.
BBC: Indian police question four over Pune bombing
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Mohammed Ajmal Qasab, the sole surviving attacker from the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was executed in November in a prison in the western city of Pune.
BBC: India court rejects plea to commute death penalty
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But Guru's hanging was the second in the last three months - Mohammed Ajmal Qasab, the sole surviving attacker from the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was executed in November in a prison in the western city of Pune.
BBC: Afzal Guru: Kashmir anger over hanging
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India imposes the death penalty only in the "rarest of rare cases" - in November, it hanged the only surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, the country's first execution in eight years.
BBC: India president approves tough rape laws
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India's financial capital Mumbai was the target of a series of calculated terrorist attacks in November 2008, when 170 people were killed, but England resumed a two-Test tour soon afterwards.
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Some 700 people have been killed in more than half a dozen militant attacks in Mumbai since 1993, including the horrific assault in November 2008.
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