No information from Pakistan on Headley's arrest: Manmohan Singh
merisarkar news service
New Delhi, November 06, 2009
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Monday accused Pakistan of not providing information regarding Lashkar-e-Taiba's plot to target vital installations in India with the help of US based LeT operatives.
Two persons have been arrested in Pakistan recently in connection with the LeT plot, which was exposed in the US.
In a joint press conference with his Swedish counterpart Fredrik Reinfeldt in Delhi, Dr Manmohan Singh said, on Headley's arrest also, New Delhi has not received any information from the Pakistani side.
FBI has arrested Headley, a US national, and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Pakistan-born Canadian citizen and a resident of Chicago last month for planning to attack the prestigious National Defence College in New Delhi.
On the same issue home minister P. Chidambaram told reporters in Hyderabad that there is an obvious Pakistani link to the arrests.
He said, David Coleman Headley visited Pakistan a number of times and on the advice of the FBI, two or perhaps more people have been arrested in Pakistan.
Mr Chidambaram said affidavits have been filed by the FBI in connection with the plot in a Chicago court. Details of conversation between Headley and Rana, submitted by prosecutors to the Chicago court, indicates that the LeT was giving priority to its attack on the National Defence College over other targets.
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