Report: Pakistani Intelligence Planned Terror Attacks on U.S. and Israeli Consulates in India

(Press Trust of India) Central Indian security agencies have claimed that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had plans to carry out terror attacks on two foreign consulates in India, based on evidence given by a Sri Lankan national during his interrogation. Sakir Hussain, who was arrested on April 29 in a coordinated operation involving various countries, said he had been hired by an official in the Pakistani high commission in Colombo as part of the ISI's plans to conduct reconnaissance of the U.S. consulate in Chennai and Israeli consulate in Bengaluru. Hussain named Amir Zubair Siddiq, a visa counsellor at the Pakistani mission in Colombo, as his handler.


2014-05-05 00:00:00

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