Headley did not disclose Pak origin while seeking visa

Lalit K Jha
Washington, Dec 26 (PTI) David Coleman Headley, the
American LeT suspect in the Mumbai attack case, did not
disclose his Pakistani-origin while seeking an Indian visa,
raising no alarm bells at the Indian Consulate in Chicago.

Headley, who was earlier called Dawood Gilani, gave
'Headley' as his last name at birth in his visa application
and wrote his father's name as 'William Headley', according to
reliable information.
The Pakistani-American, charged with criminal conspiracy
in the attack that killed 166 people in Mumbai, had changed
his name to David Headley apparently to conceal his Muslim or
Pakistani identity, the FBI chargesheet against him says.
In his visa application he did not disclose his Pakistani
origin and that cannot be traced from his passport as parents
names' do not appear in the US passport and his place of birth
is also Washington.
The information provided by Headley matched that on his
passport and the documents submitted by him, and since the US
passport has no such details as parents names or previous
nationality, it could not have alerted the Consulate.
Besides, Headley's and his accomplice Pakistani-Canadian
Tahawwur Rana's names do not appear in the Government of India
blacklist or one maintained by the embassy as till then there
were no adverse intelligence inputs against them.
Headley, 48, and Rana, 49, were arrested in October by
FBI for plotting attacks in India and for involvement in the
Mumbai attack in which six Americans also died. (MORE) PTI LKJ
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