This is for the first time that India would be directly and formally blaming the ISI as a state actor behind 26/11 terror attacks. Top sources told
The National Investigation Agency (NAI) is all set to file a comprehensive charge sheet against Lashkar conduit David Coleman Headley, his accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana and Pakistan’s espionage agency ISI besides nine Pakistanis for planning, perpetrating and executing 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks that killed 166 people in a three-day mayhem.
This is for the first time that India would be directly and formally blaming the ISI as a state actor behind 26/11 terror attacks. Top sources told
DNA the stand alone charge sheet would be filed in
absentia against all the accused as they are not in India and there is only a remote possibility of them being handed over to be a part of the court proceedings.
The charge sheet would be filed in a special trail court of Delhi within next one month.
“The draft of the charge sheet against Headley is in advance stages and we are hopeful of filing it within a month. Headley’s accomplice Rana will be a part of charge sheet and so would be Pakistani handlers of the fidayeens, Jamaat-ud-Dawa’s chief and founder of Lashkar-e-Toiba Hafiz Saeed and LeT top commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi,” top NIA sources said.
Other accused include Sajid Mir, Lashkar’s overall commander for transcontinental operations and one among Headley’s handlers, Major Iqbal of Pakistan Army and part of the ISI-sponsored LeT’s plot under Karachi Project, Mohammed Amjad Khan — LeT organiser and facilitator in Karachi, Lashkar’s top terrorists — Muzmeel Butt, Abu Hamza, Abu Qahafa and Mohamed Usman.
The charge sheet under preparation would draw mainly from what all evidence it got from the CIA, the FBI and during Headley’s questioning by the NIA team.
“The charges that would be slapped against the accused mainly fall under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act and run parallel to those slapped against Ajaml Amir Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist, such as murder, conspiracy and waging war against the nation among several others,” said sources.
Though the NIA is almost certain that filing of the charge sheet, at best, serves no more than a strong documentary purpose, it thinks also thinks that the exercise will not be a futile one as long as it helps in building international pressure against Pakistan to act against terrorists.
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