Tahawwur Rana is not Pakistani? Pakistan makes shocking claim, says 26/11 Mumbai attack accused is from…
Rana, a 64-year-old Pakistan-born Canadian national brought to New Delhi, was being held in judicial custody in the United States pursuant to proceedings initiated under the India-US Extradition Treaty for his extradition.
Islamabad: In a first-rate constructing amid the extradition of Tahawwur Rana, the prime accused in 2008 Mumbai alarm assaults, Pakistan has distanced itself from Rana’s citizenship and ties with the terrorist and known as him best a ‘Canadian’ citizen. Pakistan’s A ways off places Space of business has talked about in a commentary that “Tahawwur Rana has now not renewed his Pakistani paperwork in the final two a protracted time. We have not got anything else to enact with him. He is now a Canadian citizen.”
“On the Tahawwur Rana negate of affairs, now we rep conveyed our role relating to his Canadian nationality. As a ways as our record indicates, he did now not even educate for renewal for his Pakistani origin paperwork for the final two a protracted time. I reiterate that role,” talked about Ambassador Shafqat Ali Khan, spokesperson for the Pakistan A ways off places Space of business (PFO), one day of a weekly press briefing.
India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday launched that it had successfully secured the extradition of Rana “after years of sustained and concerted efforts to raise doubtlessly the most main conspirator uninteresting the 2008 mayhem to justice”.
Who is Tahawwur Rana?
Rana, a 64-year-aged Pakistan-born Canadian nationwide dropped at New Delhi, became once being held in judicial custody in the USA pursuant to court cases initiated below the India-US Extradition Treaty for his extradition.
The extradition at final got here thru after Rana exhausted all licensed avenues to take care of the transfer. Rana is believed to rep had shut ties with Pakistan’s Inter-Companies and products Intelligence (ISI) and is accused of conspiring with David Coleman Headley, or Daood Gilani, and operatives of designated terrorist organisations, the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islami (HUJI), in conjunction with diverse Pakistan-based co conspirators, to achieve the devastating alarm assaults in Mumbai in 2008.
With Rana’s extradition, India will rep a key hyperlink to nail Pakistan’s connection to the 26/11 Mumbai alarm assaults. Pakistan has all alongside been denying its involvement despite a series of dossiers supplied by the Executive of India. Rana’s involvement in the conspiracy uninteresting the 26/11 alarm assaults in Mumbai became once established by his childhood friend and yet every other key accused in the alarm case, David Coleman Headley, alias Daood Sayed Gilani.
(With inputs from companies)
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