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Ex Pak PM Gilani visited my home after my father's death : David Headley

| | Mar 25, 2016, at 06:06 pm
Mumbai, Mar 25 (IBNS) Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist David Coleman Headley on Friday startled a Mumbai court when he said that Yusuf Raza Gilani, who was then Pakistan's Prime Minister, had visited his home not long after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.

Gilani  paid a condolence visit to Headley's  home a few weeks after his father, a famous radio broadcaster, the Pakistan-born terrorist claimed while testifying before the court through video conferencing from an undisclosed place in the US.

 Headley's father, Sayed Salim Gilani, died on December 25, 2008, a month after 10 Pakistani terrorists attacked Mumbai killing 166 people.

Headley is serving a 35-year-prison term in the US for his role in the terror attack. He had recced the famous Mumbai landmarks that the terrorists struck. He told the  court that he wanted to inflict "maximum loss and damage" on India and Indians as he used to hate the country from his childhood.

Headley said  that his father, a well-known poet and author, was aware of his links with the dreaded Lashkar-e-Taiba. However, he said, his half-brother Danyal Gilani, who worked as a public relations officer at PM Gilani's office, did not know of his terror links.

Headley was arrested in 2009 in the US. He is being cross-examined after testifying in the Mumbai court. He turned prosecution witness last December in exchange for a pardon.

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