Besides David Coleman Headley’s damning revelations, India is banking on Tahawwur Hussain Rana’s ongoing trial to help implicate the role of ISI in the 26/11 Mumbai carnage. Sources said they are confident that the trial court will take notice of the petition filed in New York by the relative of an Israeli woman killed in the attack on Chabad House during the carnage.
On the instruction of Lashkar-e-Toiba handler Sajid Mir, who was sitting in the Karachi control room, the terrorists had killed six Israelis during their siege on Chabad House. The petition filed by the Israeli relative has named the ISI and its chief Lt-Gen Shuja Pasha as accused. “The New York case is building up direct complicity of the ISI’s role in the 26/11 terror attacks and with the additional details coming up the case against Rana is definitely going to have a stronger impact on the ISI credibility. We hope that it will expose the ISI’s role threadbare,” sources said.
Finding its long-standing accusations against Pakistan getting vindicated during the course of the trial, Indian agencies would be pressing the US to share more details on Headley, Rana and their links with state and non-state actors in Pakistan.