India is calling on Pakistan's government to hand over a group of wanted militant leaders suspected of plotting the Mumbai attacks.

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The sanctions are intended to force the Taleban to hand over the Saudi-born militant Osama Bin Laden, who is accused by the United States of plotting the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed more than 250 people.

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