Representative picture | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini
The story so far: Sixteen years after David Coleman Headley (Daood Gilani) and Tahawur Hussain Rana were arrested by the Federal Office for Investigation of the US and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a company and a cartridge against them, Rana was issued to India. Its release means the main victory for Indian investigators, lawyers and diplomats. Rana will now be in custody of NIA and are facing a court in India. This will be the third personal court in India terrorists, after Ajmal Kasab and Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal, involved in terrorist attacks on November 26, 2008.
What are the evidence against the early?
The case against Early was set by American investigators who pursued him for attacks in Mumbai, planned to attack, and for references to Lashkar-E-Taib (years); In the last two cases he was convicted in 2011. He appealed against the order to issue to India, but the US Supreme Court finally rejected it last week.
The evidence against it is based on three things: first, the Action of the Rany in terms of Headley’s financing and housing and helps him to acquire Indian visas and tickets until 2009, and also build a false identity as a representative of the Rany Travel and Immigration Agency. In November 2008, the days before the attacks, Rana and his wife traveled to Bombai and other Indian cities. Secondly, Headley’s testimony, as part of negotiating an action against early, clearly states that Rana knew about the conspiracy of 26/11 in 2006 and helped Headley voluntarily perform his reconnaissance operation and celebrated the attacks. Rana denied it and was eventually liberated in the American case. Thirdly, the FBI is the capture of interviews with the heads with Headley, including one particular meeting that Rana had with the “conspirator” in Dubai in September 2008, when he was told that the attacks were immediate.
What is the angle of Pakistan?
After Rana was issued, the Pakistani Foreign Office tried to distance himself from him and thought he had accepted Canadian citizenship in 1997 and had not tried to restore his papers since then. Rana was born in Pakistan’s province Pandjab and attended a military school in Hasan Abdal, where he first met Headley. He joined the Pakistani army as a doctor and got up to the rank of Colonel before he inexplicably went to Canada, claiming to have health. The Pakistani army declared him a deserter, and Rana claimed that Headley had told him he would use his connection to erase the early records, and therefore agreed to help him. In his testimony, Headley says that Rana has remained in contact with the Handlers flight during operations planning. The question is whether Rana can point to a more direct connection between Pakistan and 26 September.
What about the court in Pakistan?
After originally monitored evidence and promising cooperation in India in matter 26/11, the Pakistani government practically dropped it, even though the trail led to the commanders, including Hafize Saeed, and perhaps letting the operators in Pakistani intelligence agencies. Between 2009 and 2013, however, Pakistani federal investigative agency managed to collect fundamental evidence of the case, the then CEO of Tariq Khosa in the article in Pakistan’s Dawn. It turned out that Kasab was trained in the years of Camps in Thatta, Sindhu and the ship used by the terrorists was traced to the shop in Karachi, where he paid for it. Even more importantly, the Operational Room in Karachi, where the commanders have issued direct orders to terrorists. The findings were shared with India for the Kasab court. However, when India tried to level voice recordings from OPS rooms to those who are in custody, such as Hafiz Saeed and Zaki-Ur-Rehvvi Lakhvi, Pakistan stopped working.
Did the US detain anything from India?
Questions persist how many US authorities knew about planning, given that they shared a number of intelligence warnings of terrorist strikes about Hotels in Mumbai before November 2008. According to Indian officials, the header was a “double agent”, an American drug reporter (DEA). It is certainly curious that although the FBI watched the calls and movement of Headley, the Indian authorities did not inform when he returned to India after the attacks at the beginning of 2009 to plan further attacks. He was arrested when he prepared for Denmark in September 2009 to carry out attacks there.
Published – April 13, 2025 02:34
