Fresh leads to link Headley, Rana to Pak terror handlers

New Delhi, Nov 17 (PTI) In fresh leads linking them with
the November 26 attacks, American terror suspect David
Headley and his Pakistani-Canadian associate Tahawwur Hussain
Rana were being handled by same people who had given orders to
Ajmal Kasab and other terrorists killed during 26/11.
With National Investigation Agency (NIA) widening its
ambit of probe, more information surfaced about the activities
of Headley who was found to have visited the Osho Ashram in
Pune and also used two cyber cafes in Delhi's Paharganj
locality where he had also stayed.
"Evidence is slowly getting established that Headley and
Rana were part of the larger conspiracy behind the Mumbai
attack. They were in touch with same people who were giving
directions to (Azmal Amir) Kasab (the lone surviving terrorist
in Mumbai attack) and other terrorists," a senior Home
Ministry official said.
Indian investigators have asked FBI, which arrested
Headley and Rana for plotting terror attack in the US and
India, for the voice sample of Headley and Rana so that it
could be compared with the sample available here.
There is definite information that Headley and Rana had
stayed in Pakistan during last year's Mumbai attack and left
that country in the first week of December 2008, the official
said.
Following the leads, investigators are questioning a lot
of local contacts in all the places where Headley and Rana had
stayed between 2006 and 2009. "However, there is no prominent
person whom he had contacted," he said. MORE PTI