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Patni wrote:Mr. Gilani, then 38, was convicted of conspiring to smuggle heroin into the country from Pakistan. Court records show that after his arrest, he provided so much information about his own involvement with drug trafficking, which stretched back more than a decade, and about his Pakistani suppliers, that he was sentenced to less than two years in jail and later went to Pakistan to conduct undercover surveillance operationsfor the Drug Enforcement Administration.
That sums this thing up.
This guy is a double agint. He is in the same mould as Omar Sayeed Sheikh.
If India manages to get hold of this guy, after he's had biriyani in mumbai jail for a suitable period, there will only be another IC-814 type incident where the aircraft will be hijacked to pissawar or kohat or parachinar (all non state actor territory onlee) and India will have to let him go.
BTW has anyone investigated the international cons-pee-racy behind the IC-814 hijack hain ji? I am sure if someone digs deep enough, there will be a trail of money-being-transferred-from-the-gulf ityadi.
India need not touch this guy with a barge pole. Massa caught him, let them investigate him and punish him. The mumbai police can provide evidence of his link to 26/11 to assist his case.
The Ahmedabad police claim to have confirmed a report that Headley and Rana were in the city just before the attacks in November last year. They also claimed that it was clear from the IMEI number of the cell phone Headley used that he was in Ahmedabad and stayed in a hotel in the Mithakhali locality.
The police believe Headley, Rana and a woman stayed at the hotel, with the woman, Samraz, posing as Rana’s wife. They also believe the trio stayed there under assumed names and with fake passports, as the hotel authorities said no guests with these names stayed there at any time.
The trio also conducted a detailed survey of the city to identify possible soft targets for terror attacks. This was after the July 26 serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad last year, which killed 54 people and left over 100 injured.
The police said Headley was in the city at least thrice in 2008 — the first time for just about 18 hours, the second time for about a day, and the last time for two days. He stayed at a hotel in the minority-dominated Kalupur locality during one of his earlier visits to Ahmedabad.
TNN 22 November 2009, 10:33pm IST
ALANG (Bhavnagar): In a sudden crackdown, a police force of 300 jawans carried out intense combing operation at
Alang shipbreaking yard close to midnight on Saturday. Police said, the combing was meant to detect criminal activities carried out allegedly by labourers, especially those from outside Gujarat, and illegal Bangladeshi intruders.
"The purpose of the combing was to find out whether any anti-social activity was underway at the ship breaking yard as also to know about the criminal record of labourers and whether any Bangladeshi nationals had intruded in the guise of labourers," said an official of Bhavnagar police.
Bhavnagar superintendent of police Rajendra Asari told TOI, "Alang has a lot of labourers coming in from Bihar, Jharkhand and other states. As this industry is flourishing and all traffic is through sea route, we have to always remain alert."
Sources argued that the combing had been actually planned to ascertain any mid-sea terror activities in the backdrop of the ongoing investigation into connections of David Coleman Headley alias Dawood Gilani, a Lashkar-e-Taiba operative who carried out a recce of all target sites of the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai last year. The combing also provided fodder to the rumour mill about a large cache of arms and ammunition being hoarded up in the shipbreaking yard.
Refuting this suggestion, Asari said, "This exercise was done purely to create a psychological effect and put a scare in the minds of anti-social elements, if any, and has nothing to do with the Headley investigations." However, nothing was found amiss during the combing, he added.
Recently, Bhavnagar police had arrested Indrawadan Bhatt for providing army maps to Pakistan as ISI agent and remaining in contact with authorities in Pakistan over phone. Bhatt was charged with espionage. A few Bangladeshi nationals from Sandhiyavad area of Bhavnagar were also arrested in the aftermath of Godhra riots in 2002.
Terror suspect used a different alibi at dance bars
David Headley used several alibis, changing his identity according to where he was. Sources reveal that terror suspect Headley claimed he was working for a customs office in America, especially when he visited dance bars.
Sources claim Headley met them through a person who is not in the country now. Among the contacts that were introduced through this person, was a businessman who deals with the export import fuel business.
Headley also claimed to some people that he ran a visa agency for the Bollywood circle. In Pune and Delhi hotels, he claimed to be a tourist and conducted a recce in those cities.
Said a police source, "This is all an indication that he had support in Mumbai. Either a sleeper cell was helping him out or he had developed a cell for logistical and other support that helped him plan his actions accordingly."
Bar girls names crop up
Meanwhile, more names of bars that Headley visited and the bar girls there have cropped up. Sarang bar is one of the bars the Western line, that Headley often frequented. Police knew of three bar girls, now three more names have cropped up. These girls are residents of Mira Road and they reportedly work in pick-up bars.
As he has worked for Unkil's DEA undercover, I am sure he managed to give out good impression as to working for Unkil and infiltrated ugly underbelly of Bollywood-Underworld nexus. One of the report mentions he told Rahul that he is fascinated by the book Shantaram (Novel influenced by real events in the life of the author, Australian Gregory David Roberts, filled with mostly fictional adventures. The author is convicted Australian bank robber and heroin addict who escaped from Pentridge Prison and fled to India where he lived for 10 years.) and wanted to visit all the places mentioned in the book! Well Headley also had been a drug smuggler and must have come natural to him to hook up with shady characters of Bollywood.
[RTTNews) - U.S. investigators have zeroed in on a Pakistani national believed to be a common link between the Pakistan-based Islamic terrorist outfit Lashkar-e Toiba (LeT) handlers like Zaki-ur Lakhvi and the two terror suspects detained by the FBI.
David Coleman Headley, a Pakistan-born U.S. citizen, and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, Pakistan-born Canadian citizen, were arrested last month by the FBI for allegedly plotting terror attacks in India and Denmark.
The Pakistani national has been identified and probe on him is expected to reveal whether Headley and Rana had any role in last November's Mumbai terror attacks. Indian investigators have found that the duo had visited India a number of times and toured various places apparently to conduct recce prior to the Mumbai terror attacks.
American investigators also believe some elements in Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI, could be linked to Headley. Their assessment is based on the arrest of "two key persons" in Pakistan, one of whom is Illyas Kashmiri, a former Pakistani military officer who has become a militant commander associated with both Al-Qaida and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).
India and the U.S. are in constant touch on the Headley case and Washington has conveyed that within a week there could be "authentic" information whether they were involved in the 26/11 attacks, sources said.
Posted: Monday , Nov 23, 2009 at 0351 hrs Washington:
The Headley-Rana case has cast a shadow over any prospect of a positive exchange between India and Pakistan at Port of Spain later this week, with the Indian side judging the public sentiment as unfavourable for any progress on the dialogue front beyond discussing humanitarian issues.
With Parliament currently in session and Pakistani links to the Headley-Rana case bound to get sufficient attention, top sources made it clear that there was no question of even considering revival of the composite dialogue. They pointed out that the almost daily revelations in the case and its plausible link to the 26/11 attacks have made matters even more difficult.
New Delhi is particularly disappointed by the fact that there has been no effort from Pakistan to share information on the investigations in this case on their side despite the fact that the duo intended to carry out attacks on India. “We have not even got a phone call. All that we know is from the FBI investigations in the US,” said a source.
By Jorge Barrera, Canwest News ServiceNovember 23, 2009 8:02 AM
A Canadian man facing terrorism charges in the U.S. is “honest” and “hard-working,” according to his brother, a political reporter who lives in Ottawa and works for the newspaper The Hill Times.
Abbas Rana says in Monday’s edition of the paper, the charges against his the brother, Tahawwur Rana, are “false,” and that the ordeal has plunged his family into a nightmare.
“To the best of my knowledge, these charges are false. I know my brother. I love my brother. He’s a man of integrity, he’s honest, and he’s a hard-working person,” Abbas Rana told The Hill Times.
The quotes appear in an opinion article written by Jim Creskey, the publisher of the Parliament Hill weekly, and titled: Why The Hill Times supports its reporter, Abbas Rana.
Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 46, is in jail in Chicago awaiting trail after he was arrested last month on suspicion of involvement in a plot to attack a Danish newspaper that had published various cartoons of Muhammad in 2005.
Rana was arrested along with David Coleman Headley, 49, for allegedly planning to kill an editor and a cartoonist at the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten. They face charges of conspiring to provide material support for terrorism and providing material support to terrorism.
Indian authorities also allege Headley, an American citizen, and Rana, a Canadian, may have been involved in plans behind last November’s terror attacks in Mumbai, which lasted over three days and left 166 people dead, including two Canadians.
Tahawwur Rana, frequently visited Kanata, Ont., a suburb of Ottawa, to visit his brother Abbas Rana, father and family.
Abbas Rana has been on leave from the newspaper to care for his ailing father and remains on leave, Creskey wrote.
“Abbas is a respected Parliament Hill journalist who has been on the The Hill Times staff for seven years,” Creskey wrote. “His political and policy knowledge flows from a quiet and thoughtful approach to his work and he revels in the virtues of democratic institutions.”
Creskey also criticized the tone of media stories about the terrorism allegations.
“As I read about his brother’s case in news stories from Chicago to India, to Canada, I can’t help but notice the innuendo that appears to imply guilty in the reporting on allegations of terrorism,” wrote Creskey.
“I also think we might all learn that there’s more than meets the eye in the way terrorism cases are investigated and reported on.”
Mumbai, Nov 23 (PTI) Vilas Warack, a gym instructor who met terror suspect David Coleman Headley along with filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt's son Rahul, was today questioned by the the National Investigation Agency probing the LeT plot to carry out major strikes in India.
The agency recorded the statement of Warack on how he knew Headley, who was arrested by the FBI in the US last month for planning attacks on the National Defence College in Delhi, Doon school in Dehradun and Woodstock school in Mussoorie, at the behest of LeT, official sources said today.
Warack, who worked as an instructor at Moksha Gym frequented by Headley, was asked about the locations the American visited and names of persons whom he met there.
The sources said that Warack was a little nervous but responded to the questions.
Josy Joseph / DNA
Monday, November 23, 2009 3:53 IST
New Delhi: A top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) leader, Syed Abdul Rehman, is learnt to have bought a Google Earth Pro service in October last year, weeks before the 26/11 terror strikes on Mumbai.
Sources in the security establishment feel Rehman may have played a crucial role in plotting the 26/11 attacks, especially since Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone terrorist captured alive during the attacks, has admitted to having been made familiar with the targets in Mumbai using Google Earth.
But Rehman, who handled David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, had not figured on the radar of Indian security agencies until now.Inputs emerging over the past few weeks show that Rehman has been controlling a network of terrorists in Bangladesh, Nepal, the Gulf and, possibly, southern India.Though not identified by the FBI by name, Rehman is the LeT handler 'A' in the criminal complaints filed by the agency in Chicago against Headley and Rana, the sources said.
Rehman was the key contact between the duo and Ilyas Kashmiri, a Pakistani army commando-turned-terrorist. Investigators are also trying to verify the phone numbers in Pakistan that were used by handlers to talk to terrorists in Mumbai on 26/11 last year.
They are also trying to find out if the VOIP numbers that were used during the attacks had any connection with the Headley-Rana network. So far, no credible evidence has emerged in this regard.
Rehman, the sources say, is also the handler for Muthu, a Bangladesh based LeT leader who is a key operative of the LeT-HuJI network that has deep links in South India.
The most famous of the network's operatives was Shahid Bilal, a resident of Hyderabad (India) who was involved in several terror attacks in South India and was mysteriously killed in Karachi in 2007.
So the picture emerging shows that Rehman was a senior LeT operative based in Lahore who, using the garb of an immigration agency First World Consultancy Pvt Ltd, was playing a key role in attacks in India. He is believed to be handling the movement of terrorists, recce and, probably, the distribution of payments to various modules. "To me it looks like Rehman was the one tasked to carry out recce and selection of targets, and providing details to the terrorists," a senior source in the security establishment told DNA.
Rehman, the sources say, is also the handler for Muthu, a Bangladesh based LeT leader who is a key operative of the LeT-HuJI network that has deep links in South India.
Muthu is a very common Tamil name; no wonder he has deep links in South India.
Apparently, changing names to gain an advantage is not uncommon in America. The consulates have their work cut out for them in fishing out the foreign born applicants.
Throughout Shuki Khalili’s career, he suspected his name might be holding him back. When he worked for a Wall Street headhunter, he felt potential clients would blow him off when they heard his name.
“I tried using an American name, ‘Andrew Warner,’ and suddenly I could at least engage them in conversation and sell them some ads so I could build my business,” he said. He now goes by Andrew Warner and runs a successful entrepreneurial resource site called Mixergy.com in Santa Monica, Calif.
NEW DELHI: Ilyas Kashmiri, the dreaded Harakat-ul-Jihad-Islami (HuJI) commander who along with US-based LeT duo David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana had planned to attack India and Denmark, is learnt to have been detained by Pakistan at the behest of FBI.
Though Pakistan has so far not shared any details about Kashmiri with India, intelligence agencies here believe that the HuJI commander — who earlier served in Special Service Group of the Pakistani army — is one of the seven persons detained by Pakistan following the arrest of Rana and Headley by FBI last month.
Besides Headley and Rana, Kashmiri is among the five players listed by FBI in its affidavits against the terror duo in a Chicago court. Former commander in the Afghan jihad, Kashmiri was first arrested in October 2005 on charges of attacks against then Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf in 2003. He was, however, released and has since been coordinating with LeT members for their terror operations through well-trained and educated jihadis.
It was his tactic to rope in Pakistan-born anglicised youths like Headley and another HuJI commander Omar Saeed Sheikh. While he could have come in contact with Headley only three-four years ago, his association with Sheikh — who was released in exchange for passengers aboard the hijacked IC-814 plane at Kandahar — has been traced back to the early 90s.
Kashmiri, who headed the infamous 313 brigade that carried out a number of attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, had once fled India while dodging security officials in Ghaziabad amid a fierce gunbattle in 1994. It was in that gunbattle that his trusted lieutenant Omar Sheikh was injured and arrested. The gang was in Ghaziabad to set up a terror module by recruiting locals to carry out attacks on mainland India.
Although Kashmiri did not enter mainland India after that, his journey across the LoC continued and he oversaw a number of operations in J&K by pushing trained infiltrators. He was once arrested in J&K but escaped from jail in 1998. Upon his return to Pakistan, Kashmiri continued to conduct operations against India.
Ilyas Kashmiri, the dreaded Harakat-ul-Jihad-Islami (HuJI) commander who along with US-based LeT duo David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana had planned to attack India and Denmark, is learnt to have been detained by Pakistan at the behest of FBI.
Ilyas Kashmiri was supposed to have fled to Waziristan after he was released from his previous detention. How could the Pakistanis detain him so quickly after the request comes from the FBI and that too from a still-no-go area of Waziristan ? However, if the report is true, it can mean only one thing. That Ilyas Kashmiri was always under 'detention' of the PA and was directing all the operations from a 'protective custody'.
Updated on Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 21:23 IST Tags:Pakistan, army, detained
Islamabad: Five Pakistani army officers have been detained for questioning over possible links to two US terror suspects accused of plotting an armed attack on a Danish newspaper, intelligence officials said on Tuesday.
The detentions underscore long-standing allegations that elements in Pakistan support a militant group known as Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is devoted to fighting the country's arch enemy, India.
The group is blamed for last year's terror attacks in Mumbai and other strikes in India in recent years. Last month's arrests of David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana in Chicago have cast a fresh spotlight on the group.
US prosecutors said the two men were believed to be working with an unidentified senior member of the outfit and a senior al Qaeda operative.
Two Pakistani intelligence officials, speaking anonymously because they are not allowed to release their identity, said phone records showed the five Pakistani officers had contacted Headley and Rana.
They say the five include a retired brigadier general and two active lieutenant colonels, but did not provide more details.
Pakistani military officials could not immediately be reached for confirmation.
The FBI says Headley traveled to Pakistan this year and may have been headed there when he was arrested October 3 at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport en route to Philadelphia.
That Ilyas Kashmiri was always under 'detention' of the PA and was directing all the operations from a 'protective custody'.
Or that the person arrested is actually Sukhwinder Singh Ramaswamy Sangakkara Abdullah. Interesting comment from the Assistant Professor who turned down the job as "India Desk" at Foggy Bottom, after spending time in Balochistan etc. She said:
The Jundullah guy accused by Iran was also detained and put in short protective custody in Balochistan. Pakistan is Islam and Islam is Pakistan and per Zia it is ok to lie in Pakistan .
Two Pakistani intelligence officials, speaking anonymously because they are not allowed to release their identity, said phone records showed the five Pakistani officers had contacted Headley and Rana.
They say the five include a retired brigadier general and two active lieutenant colonels, but did not provide more details.
Denying a report that serving officers were picked up in connection with the case that was being probed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Major-General Athar Abbas, the military spokesman, said only one retired Major was picked two months ago
Looks to me the whole story is staged managed! the show put up for the visiting Indian PM and to dupe the world and show how pakis are so co-operating in getting rid of terrorists from Pakistan! The whole thing smacks of their standard double speak and H&D management!! let the report get out attributed to anonymous intelligence sources that they have detained 5 officers and also include proverbial TPA No. 3 and then retract the same once the D-Day is over and issue denials!
Rajeev Srinivasan has come out with one of his trademark articles on what he fears may come out of the MMS wine-e-dine orgy. Your theory is probably right on the musharraf. Bracing for the "joint statement" building on the demonstrated triumphs of Havana and Sharm-el-Sheik.
My earlier post
The complicity is from both the US & Pakistan. The US knows pretty well that the Indians, on their own, will not do anything with Pakistan and have outsourced the application of pressuring Pakistan to them. For them, their interests naturally are primary and therefore fall shy of pressurizing Pakistan on 26/11 even when some of their own citizens have been killed.
The Americans have learnt from Musharraf. Produce something before an imporatnt state visit. The Headley/Rana case, followed by the arrest of the mafiosi duo in Italy, non-revelation of the names of Member A & Member B in Pakistan are sufficient baits for India without jeopardizing Pakistni connections. Like the arrest of Hafeez Saeed before UN meet and his prompt release thereafter, like the dossier sent by Pakistan to India before Sharm-el-Sheikh and the case being dumped immediately thereafter, nothing much will happen in the Headley/Rana/Italy/Army officers case either.
By Duncan Gardham and Dean Nelson
Published: 3:58PM GMT 25 Nov 2009
David Coleman Headley, also known as Daood Sayed Gilani, made frequent visits to the Indian city where he mixed with the Bollywood set as a cover for his activities, it is claimed.
He joined a local gym in the upmarket Breach Candy area and stayed at the Taj Mahal hotel, one of the targets, in April and May 2007.
According to a US indictment, Headley, 49, was a freelance reconnaissance agent for terrorist groups including Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group behind the Mumbai attacks a year ago. Intelligence sources have told the Daily Telegraph that British officers collected the vital information that identified Headley, a US citizen living in Chicago who was arrested in October. They declined to give further details.
British intelligence was also responsible for the arrest of another US terrorist suspect, Najibullah Zazi, 24, who was allegedly planning attacks on the New York subway when he was arrested in Denver in September.
Investigators in India are still trying to piece together Headley's activity in the country around the crucial period, when he posed as a businessman running an immigration service.
He is said to have befriended a man called Rahul who has identified himself to Indian police as Rahul Bhatt, a young actor from one of Bollywood's leading families.
Apart from his visit to the Taj Mahal hotel in 2007, when he stayed in the heritage building attacked by the terrorists the following year, he also visited New Delhi, staying in the city's Paharganj area, in October 2007 and March 2009.
He is reported to have rented an apartment close to his gym in Mumbai from April 2008, where his landlady has described him as a "sweet and charming man".
Headley's associate, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, a Canadian living in Chicago, stayed in a guesthouse in south Mumbai close to the Chhatrapati Shivaji railway station, another target, until November 21 last year, five days before the attacks, when he returned to North America.
Headley himself was in Pakistan at the time of the attacks working on another plan he called the "Mickey Mouse Project". Headley and Rana both attended the Hasan Abdal Cadet College in Pakistan and were members of an internet group called the Abdalians.
Five Pakistani army officers were arrested this week in connection with their activities. One Pakistani officer, referred to in US legal documents as "Individual A," is said to have acted as Headley's link to Let and another group called Harakat ul- Jihad Islami, both of which are associated with al-Qaeda.
While investigations continue into Headley's activities in India he has been charged in Chicago with a number of other terrorist offences.
He is accused of plotting an attack on the culture editor and cartoonist who published cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in Denmark.
The arrogance of the man came forth when he challenged a bombay victim on how he would have handled the post-26/11 better!
Any brfite would have been ready with the answer, but not the victim in question.
I have been to one of the NDTV talk shows, and hence i know that the viewer questions are not as random as it seems. They have people embedded in the audience with 'prepared' questions.
Today promptly Burkha first went to a girl whose question was on the lines of:
'You want public to cooperate in fighting crime, but when rahul bhatt did, you painted him as the villain. Why should people help you then...blah blah!'
luckily, PC was firm in answering that Bhats themselves went to media and made noise about their role. Its no big deal if bhat came forward, and at no time have they certified them as innocent.
then later on while flipping channels, there was another plant who asked thus:
'Why shouldn't armed forces special act be removed....they are missusing it blah blah'
It is very clear that Darkha butt came crawling out of the woodwork to the aid of her comrade Mahesh bhatts & sons ltd.
Its was also clear that the armed forces special act question was plant and not spontaneous.
Seems Home Minister attended the show to show his debating skills and score some cheap points rather than answering genuine questions , if GOI had indeed done something concrete on ground he would have answered the question about the GOI response to 26/11 instead of responding to a question with another ,oh I forgot he could have highlighted his win in the elections after a re-count and the S.e.S declaration.
Barkha as usual must have received a high TRP for the show.
Ritu Sarin
Posted: Thursday , Nov 26, 2009 at 0320 hrs
New Delhi:
An email from a woman calling him her “boyfriend” and saying she is ready to “die” for him, a book on Mahatma Gandhi he bought in a Mumbai mall, a post-midnight visitor to the hotel coffee shop — such are the disparate details about David Headley that investigators are trying to piece together.
After fresh evidence from the FBI, investigators have questioned more than 200 people, including employees and managers of hotels, guest-houses and cyber-cafes visited by Headley in several cities but are still unsure of the purpose and pattern of his nine trips from 2006 to 2009.
But probe agencies, primarily the National Investigation Agency (NIA), have received at least two post-paid mobile numbers used by Headley in India; around a dozen Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and several e-mail IDs used by him as well as by women who seemed to be in regular touch with him during his trips to India
What is puzzling investigators is a string of what they call “romantic e-mails” received by Headley. While some are unsigned, others end with a capitalized initial. The e-mails to Headley mention dinner dates, a proposed trip to Shimla and motor bikes being hired for trips.
Sources say that one e-mail mentions how the sender (the woman) has spoken to her parents about her “American boyfriend” and that she was prepared to “die” for him.
Manish Sahu
Posted: Thursday , Nov 26, 2009 at 0322 hrs
Lucknow:
Investigators have found that Tahawwur Hussain Rana, the suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba operative — and alleged accomplice of David Headley — and his wife Samraz Akhtar visited Meerut, Hapur and Agra in November 2008.
Rana is believed to have spent three weeks in India and left days before the Mumbai attacks.
The couple first visited Samraz’s aunts Suraiya Bano in Meerut and Farzana Parvez in Hapur. Suraiya and Farzana are sisters of Samraz’s mother Musharraf Jahan who is settled in Pakistan.
The couple then visited Agra, along with Farzana and her daughter Zoya Akbar, who is a school student, on November 14 and 15 last year, to see the Taj Mahal and stayed in the Manya Palace hotel.
Farzana’s husband Akbar Ali, when contacted by The Indian Express, confirmed these visits.
He said that an officer from the National Investigation Agency had visited him and he had passed on whatever information he had.
“We could not believe that Rana could be involved in terror activities. When I met him, he told me that he runs an immigration business. I believe that if Rana was involved in such activities, then he would have not stayed in a cheap hotel at Agra where they paid Rs 400 for a room. I came to know that Rana was facing a financial crisis and, during the trip, it was my wife who took care of most of the expenses,” said Akbar Ali, who is an advocate.
Rana and his wife arrived at Delhi airport on November 13 where Suraiya’s husband Saleem Ahmed received them and brought them to his home in Meerut. Akbar Ali was there in Meerut to welcome him. Later, in the evening, Akbar Ali brought the couple to Hapur in his car.
Next morning, the couple, along with Akbar Ali’s wife and daughter, went to Agra in a hired taxi to see the Taj Mahal. “For some reason, they could not see the Taj Mahal that evening. They went to a hotel, Manya Palace, and stayed there at night. The next morning, all four left the hotel and went to see the Taj Mahal. My wife and daughter accompanied them to Delhi and took the same taxi to return to Hapur”, said Akbar Ali.
The hotel room was booked in the name of Zoya Akbar, sources said.
Akbar Ali said Rana used his Reliance cellphone while they were at his home and in Agra. “Rana’s wife made a call to their children in Canada with my cellphone”, he said.
In Delhi, Farzana dropped Rana and his wife at a hotel in Karol Bagh before returning home, said Akbar Ali.
“This was the second time I met Rana after his marriage. Around 15 years ago, I had visited Pakistan and Rana was then a captain in the Pakistan military. Both Rana and his wife Samraz Akhtar were MBBS doctors. Rana’s wife ran a clinic in Bahawalpur. Later, I got to know that two years after their marriage, Rana left his job and started some business,” said Akbar Ali.
The arrogance of the man came forth when he challenged a bombay victim on how he would have handled the post-26/11 better!
Any brfite would have been ready with the answer, but not the victim in question.
The biggest problem with P. Chidambaram is his arrogance, his haughtiness.
SSridhar wrote:My earlier post
The complicity is from both the US & Pakistan. The US knows pretty well that the Indians, on their own, will not do anything with Pakistan and have outsourced the application of pressuring Pakistan to them.
UK and US always had info about plots against India from Pak and PAK/ISI. Some of them probably from Pak Americans. They never had to divulge anything. They wanted India to come to them for help.
The arrogance of the man came forth when he challenged a bombay victim on how he would have handled the post-26/11 better!
Any brfite would have been ready with the answer, but not the victim in question.
The biggest problem with P. Chidambaram is his arrogance, his haughtiness.
i would not call it that way , the person who this question was posed was one of the victim, i saw him last year on TV shows and he is a very disturbed person so could not answer. But any one in the audience could have spoke up.
yes War is not an option but retribution is , one year down the line we should have snipers in Pak to take the jokers out. suprising no body spoke of that wonder why
Ananya, my impression is formed after watching him for nearly two decades in his native Tamilnadu, and not based on this single incident which I did not even view. Anyway, OT here.
i would not call it that way , the person who this question was posed was one of the victim, i saw him last year on TV shows and he is a very disturbed person so could not answer. But any one in the audience could have spoke up.
The person always appear on any Mumbai 26/11 related Burkha/NDTV show or interview. He always appear sober with broody looking. He never fails to create a show and never fails to take a jab at Modi and Modi's presence during 26/11. Reminds me of Burkha "Mumbai carnage" coverage where she prompted people to say something about Modi on live like a campaign.
It is possible that burkha dutt had calculated that the HM would not be able to answer the questions that she thought will be difficult to answer.
PC turned the tables on the chap, and well into the interview realized the JNU junta embedded in the crowd.
There is no way that gals in india ask those katarnaak political questions unless they are from JNU.
That is the point isnt it ? He just started blabbering and couldn't able to stand on a point. As I said, he seems to be good on whining than thinking with reality.
[quote="Gagan"]It is possible that burkha dutt had calculated that the HM would not be able to answer the questions that she thought will be difficult to answer.
PC turned the tables on the chap, and well into the interview realized the JNU junta embedded in the crowd.
There is no way that gals in india ask those katarnaak political questions unless they are from JNU. [/quote]
Possibly true.
always remember, when burkha dhatt calls out to an audience member by name, it means that its a plant with pre-briefed questions. The spontaneous questioners don't have names, and she wouldnt know them anyways .
