`ISI paid Rs 25 lakh to LeT to buy boat to attack Mumbai`

New Delhi, Jul 16 (PTI) In revelations that clearly show
Inter-Services Intelligence role in the 26/11 attacks,
Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley has told his
interrogators that the Pakistani intelligence agency had paid
Rs 25 lakh to LeT to purchase a boat which terrorists used to
travel from Karachi.
Headley also identified through voice sample test two ISI
officers who handled the 10 terrorists who carried out 60-hour
attack in Mumbai on November 26, 2008.
Giving these bits of information on the basis of
interrogation of Headley carried out by an National
Investigation Agency team recently, official sources here said
the ISI role in the attack was very clear from the revelations
made by the LeT operative who is in the custody of FBI.
The ISI had paid Rs 25 lakh to Lashkar-e Taiba (LeT)
terror outfit for purchase of a boat which was used by the
26/11 attackers to travel from Karachi to the Pakistani
maritime boundary, where they hijacked an Indian fishing boat
'Kuber' to reach Mumbai.
Sources said Indian investigators also have information
that chief of ISI Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja Pasha had met
one of the handlers of the Mumbai attack, Sajjid Mir, who is
currently in a Pakistani jail.
"All these information have been shared by India with
Pakistan through the multiple dossiers given to it," a source
said.
Indian Home Secretary G K Pillai had earlier stated that
ISI was "literally controlling and coordinating the (Mumbai)
attack from beginning to end".
Headley, who is currently in US custody, had done the
recce of several terror targets in Mumbai during his multiple
visits to India for the LeT which carried out the 26/11
attack. PTI