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Tahawwur Rana knew Major Iqbal from army days: Wife

CHICAGO: The mysterious Major Iqbal whose name has cropped up most frequently in the Tahawwur Rana trial was known to the Canadian-Pakistani doctor and his family long before Rana came into contact with David Headley the man who recceed Mumbai for Lashkar-e-Taiba ahead of the 26/11 attacks. This was revealed in an exclusive interview to TOI by Samraz Rana the wife of the former Pakistani army doctor who migrated to Canada in 1997 and is being tried as a co-accused in the Mumbai terror plot. Wearing a Pakistani-style salwar-kameez her head covered by a dupatta she tried to depict her husband as a family man who had been duped by David Coleman Headley and used in the preparations for the attacks that killed 166 people. Remarking on telephone numbers that were displayed in court earlier as evidence by the prosecution, she said He (Headley) used every connection we had and twisted it. Two entries in her list of 159 contacts were of interest to the prosecution ^ one being Dave and the other Balajee. In a parade of evidence in the form of emails telephone intercepts transcripts of recorded conversation the prosecution established that the Balajee mentioned was Major Iqbal whose name has cropped up in the trial ad nauseum.

                                                                                                               
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