India says U.S. terror suspect has links to plotters in Pakistan

NEW DELHI, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- India Friday claimed that David Coleman Headley, the U.S. citizen recently arrested by the FBI for allegedly planning terror attacks against India and Denmark, had links to plotters in Pakistan.

"There is a Pakistan link. Dave Headley visited Pakistan a number of times and I think on the advice of the FBI, two or perhaps more people have been arrested in Pakistan," Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram told the media in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh's capital Hyderabad.

Asked whether India was informed about the Pakistan link, the Indian Home Minister said: "If you are asking whether I was informed about it, the answer is yes."

India had recently sent an intelligence team to interrogate Headley who was arrested with Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Pakistan-born Canadian citizen and a resident of Chicago, for allegedly planning an attack on India's prestigious National Defence College and various other targets.