New Delhi | The five-member delegation of Pakistan who visited India for the funeral of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has sparked controversy as one of the member is claimed to be the Half brother of Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, who played a crucial role in the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai.
Danyal Gilani, who is posted as the Chairman of Central Film Censor Board was a part of the 5 member delegation who visited India on Friday. According to a senior official,” The delegation attended the funeral and was to meet the external affairs minister also. It would have been very embarrassing for the government to explain.”
However, as per government sources Danyal Gilani, a career bureaucrat in Pakistan, has publicly dissociated himself from David Headley. Sources further added that he has so far not been found to have any terror links and is not on any Indian blacklist. According to a senior Indian government official,” Danyal Gilani was issued visa after checking the blacklist. He does not figure in our blacklist. There are no reports of his links to terrorism.”
Meanwhile, Danyal Gilani attended the funeral but did not attend the courtesy meeting of Pakistan’s caretaker law minister Syed Ali Zaffar with foreign minister Sushma Swaraj. Gilani’s half-brother David Coleman Headley is currently observing an imprisonment in US after he was arrested in 2009. Headley is convicted for recceing various Indian cities before the 26/11 attacks.
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