The National Investigation Agency has added Pakistani diplomat Amir Zubair Siddique to its list of people wanted for carrying out various acts of terrorism in India. Siddique is the first Pakistani diplomat to be added to the list, The Times of India reported on Monday.
Siddique is accused of conspiring to carry out terrorist attacks on United States and Israeli consulates in India, the Hindustan Times reported. He reportedly planned these attacks during his stint at the Pakistani High Commission in Sri Lanka in 2014, the agency said in a chargesheet it filed in February.
The agency will also seek an Interpol red-corner notice against Siddique and three other Pakistani officers allegedly involved in the conspiracy, The Times of India reported.
Apart from Siddique, the agency has put on the list a Pakistani intelligence officer who went by the alias “Vineeth”, and another officer code-named “Boss alias Shah”. Their identities could not be confirmed, the daily said.
The conspiracy and the diplomat’s alleged involvement came to the fore after a Sri Lankan named Sakir Hussain, who was arrested by the Tamil Nadu Police in 2014 and is in jail, named him, the Hindustan Times reported. Hussain told the investigators that he had carried out reconnaissance of the American consulate in Chennai and the Israeli consulate in Bangalore ahead of a planned terror strike on these facilities.
Siddique was sent back to Islamabad after India pressured Sri Lanka for information about his alleged activities. His name features on the list along with that of Major Samir Ali, one of the handlers who allegedly orchestrated the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai, Sajid Mir of the Inter-Services Intelligence and Jamaat-ud-Dawah leader Hafiz Saeed.
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