TERROR-VISA TWO LAST

Rana was given a year-long business visa and Samraz
was here on a tourist visa valid for five years. The two were
exempted even from registering with the police if their stay
did not exceed 180 days.

Both of them arrived at Mumbai airport on November 12
last year after which they travelled to the city of Kochi in
the south Indian state of Kerala on November 16.
An associate of a US citizen David Headley, who has also
been arrested on terror charges by the FBI last month, Rana
and Samraz had stayed in a five star hotel for a night during
which they were allegedly looking for recruits for Pakistan-
based Lashker-e-Taiba.
Ahead of the Kochi visit, Rana gave an advertisement
in a prominent English daily asking youths willing to
immigrate to US and Canada to appear for interview, sources
said.
Rana and his school friend Headley were arrested last
month by the FBI on charges of being part of a plan by
Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) to carry out terror
attacks in India and Denmark.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) was also looking
for the people who had booked the advertisement in the
newspaper.
A team of central security agencies had also visited
Kochi edition of a prominent English daily to take the details
of the people or agency who had booked the advertisement on
behalf of Rana. PTI SKL
RDM


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