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Report: Pakistan planned terror attack on Israeli consulate in India
Pakistani intelligence reportedly planned attacks on US, Israeli consulates in India
Pakistani intelligence planned terror attacks on the consulates of Israel and the United States in India, according to information provided by a Sri Lankan national arrested last week, The Times of India reported Sunday.
Official Indian sources told the paper that Sakir Hussain claimed to his interrogators that he had been hired by a Pakistani diplomat in Colombo to conduct reconnaissance of the US consulate in Chennai and the Israeli consulate in Bangalore.
He is reported to have told the interrogators that Pakistan's spy agency was planning to send two men from the Maldives to Chennai and that he had to arrange for their travel documents and hideouts.
Hussain's name surfaced during an investigation in a southeast Asian country, which tipped a central security agency in India about possible attack on the consulates, the sources told the paper.
Upon his arrival in Chennai on April 29, he was picked up. During his interrogation, Hussain reportedly named Amir Zubair Siddiq, who is a visa counsellor at the Pakistan high commission in Colombo, as his handler.
The Indians found pictures of the US and Israeli consulates, showing gates and roads leading to the two premises, the sources said, and claimed these had been mailed to Hussain's handlers in Pakistan and its high commission in Colombo.
Cyber signatures showed that the pictures were downloaded at a computer within the premises of the Pakistan High Commission (embassy) in Colombo, the sources claimed.
He is reported to have told the interrogators that Pakistan's spy agency was planning to send two men from the Maldives to Chennai and that he had to arrange for their travel documents and hideouts.
Hussain's name surfaced during an investigation in a southeast Asian country, which tipped a central security agency in India about possible attack on the consulates, the sources told the paper.
Upon his arrival in Chennai on April 29, he was picked up. During his interrogation, Hussain reportedly named Amir Zubair Siddiq, who is a visa counsellor at the Pakistan high commission in Colombo, as his handler.
The Indians found pictures of the US and Israeli consulates, showing gates and roads leading to the two premises, the sources said, and claimed these had been mailed to Hussain's handlers in Pakistan and its high commission in Colombo.
Cyber signatures showed that the pictures were downloaded at a computer within the premises of the Pakistan High Commission (embassy) in Colombo, the sources claimed.
Muhammad Daud Ehtisham, press attache at the High Commission of Pakistan in Sri Lanka, dismissed the report as a "malicious media campaign", saying Pakistan and its institutions are responsible entities and do not indulge in such activities.
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