Pak seeks details on Headley from India

Islamabad, Aug 28: Pakistan sought more information from India on 49-year-old David Coleman Headley, the Pakistani-American Lashker-e-Taiba operative who has confessed to his involvement in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.

Pakistan's High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik told Interior Minister Rehman Malik about the efforts to seek more information about Headley in Islamabad on Friday, Aug 27.

Headley, whose father was a Pakistani and mother an American, was charged with helping the terrorists who attacked Mumbai in November 2008 and killed 166 people, including six Americans.

Pakistani authorities have arrested seven men, including LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, on charges of facilitating and planning the attacks.

Home Minister P Chidambaram has said Pakistan needs to do more to arrest the planners, financiers and handlers of the attacks.

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