The lawsuit, filed last year by relatives of two Jewish victims of the Mumbai attacks, alleges that Pasha and his predecessor Nadeem Taj helped the LeT conduct the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people, including six Americans.
It charges that the ISI provided “critical planning, material support, control and coordination” of the Mumbai attacks under the leadership of Pasha and Taj.
This allegedly included providing funding to David Coleman Headley, a Pakistani-American who has pleaded guilty in a US federal court to conducting surveillance for the Mumbai attacks under the direction of an ISI case officer, whom he identified only as “Major Iqbal”.
The lawsuit is based in “large part on evidence developed by the FBI linking the ISI to the operatives of the LeT terror group who are charged with conducting the operation”, the report said.
Kevin Walsh and Allen C Wasserman on behalf of the ISI, the Pakistan government “regards any assertion of jurisdiction over its high officials” by a US court “as an intrusion on its sovereignty, in violation of international law”.
The two American lawyers are with the Dallas-based firm of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell. The firm reportedly was paid over two million dollars in fees by Pakistan Govet since it signed a contract with the Pakistan government in 2008.
Pakistan aims to block the Lawsuite stating Pakistan is a “wartime ally of the US” in the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and that the lawsuit will damage that alliance.
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