Indian ambassador to the US Meera Shankar on Thursday said the trial of Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana, who is accused with David Coleman Headley for the 26/11 terror attacks in the US, is throwing new light on the conspiracy to carry out the worst terror strike in India.
Talking to mediapersons, after meeting Union home minister P. Chidambaram here on Thursday, Ms Shankar said, “Trial of Rana, who helped Lashkar-e-Tayyaba operative Headley in conducting recce of the 26/11 targets, is going on in a Chicago court where fresh revelation is coming out. Headley is one of the key witnesses in the trial. It is going on. Revelation is coming out. It’s throwing new light on the conspiracy”.
Testimony of Headley in the court confirmed Pakistan’s spy agency ISI’s involvement in the conspiracy to carry out the Mumbai carnage. Headley has also told the court that the ISI provided him training. The training by the Pakistani spy agency to Headley was provided by Major Iqbal, who was his ISI handler, on the streets and in a two-storey safe house in Lahore near the airport. Headley’s confession has already established that Lashkar-e-Tayyaba founder Hafiz Saeed was involved in the Mumbai terror attack plot right from the planning stages to the execution of the terror attacks on multiple spots in Mumbai.