‘ISI paid LeT Rs 26 lakhs for Mumbai boat’
In a damning indication of the role of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai, Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley has told his interrogators that Pakistan’s ISI had paid between Rs 20-25 lakhs to the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba to purchase a boat which terrorists used to travel from Karachi to the
Pakistani maritime boundary, where they hijacked an Indian fishing boat Kuber to reach Mumbai. Headley has also identified two ISI officers, through voice sample test, who were the handlers of the 10 terrorists who carried out the Mumbai carnage.
Indian investigation agencies have information that chief of Inter-Services Intelligence lieutenant-general Ahmed Shuja Pasha had met one of the handlers of the Mumbai attack, Sajjid Mir, who is currently in a Pakistani jail, the sources said.
“All these information have been shared by India with Pakistan through the multiple dossiers given to it,” an official said. Notably, home secretary G.K. Pillai had earlier said that the ISI was “literally controlling and coordinating the (Mumbai) attack from beginning to end”.
Headley, who is in FBI custody in the US, had shared the details of the ISI’s involvement in the Mumbai carnage with the Indian team consisting of NIA officials who recently visited the US to question him.
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