UK-MUMBAI 2LST

Headley, who changed his name from Daood Gilani,
reportedly told the investigators that the ISI hoped the
Mumbai attack would slow or stop growing "integration" between
groups active in Jammu and Kashmir, with whom the agency had
maintained a long relationship, and "Taliban-based outfits" in
Pakistan and Afghanistan which were a threat to the Pakistani
state.
"The ISI had no ambiguity in understanding the necessity
to strike India," Headley is reported to have said.
The aim of the agency was "controlling further split in
the Kashmir-based outfits, providing them a sense of
achievement and shifting the theatre of violence from the
domestic soil of Pakistan to India".
According to the report, Headley described meeting once
with a "Colonel Kamran" from the military intelligence service
and having a series of meetings with a "Major Iqbal" and a
"Major Sameer Ali".
A fellow conspirator was handled by a Colonel Shah, he
claimed.
Headley also alleged that he was given USD 25,000 by his
ISI handler to finance one of eight surveillance missions in
India.
"However, Headley describes the ISI director general, Lt
General Shuja Pasha, visiting a key senior militant from LeT
in prison after the attacks in a bid "to understand" the
operation, implying that, as many western security agencies
suspect, the top ranks of the agency were unaware of at least
the scale of the planned strike", the report said.
An ISI spokesman told The Guardian that the accusations
of the agency's involvement in the Mumbai attacks were
"baseless". PTI PS
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