The NIA has sent a fresh request to Moroccan authorities for recording the statement of Faiza Outalha, mainly pertaining to her knowledge about her estranged husband David Headley’s association with Lashkar-e-Taiba — a move aimed at unravelling the role of state actors in Pakistan in 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
The development came after the Moroccan authorities, while executing a Letters Rogatory sent by the NIA in 2012 after many months, had sent a statement of Ms. Outalha recorded by the law enforcing agencies of that country.
According to the sources, the NIA has sent a fresh request to the Moroccan authorities to allow a team of the NIA to question Ms. Outalha so that the role of two Pakistani Army majors and Lashkar terrorists Hafeez Saeed and Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi is further ascertained.
Ms. Outalha had visited India twice and was used by Headley, a U.S. national of Pakistani origin, while carrying out a reconnaissance mission at Hotel Taj Mahal in Mumbai.
