Tahawwur rana extradition to india: 166 innocent people were killed in the 2008 Mumbai attacks and its conspirator Tawwur Rana was extradited from America and brought to India. There was a time when Tehwavur Hussain Rana was a doctor in the Pakistani Army. At that time, hardly anyone would have thought that this person who save the lives of people will become a dreaded terrorist in the coming years.
After years of legal battle, he has finally been extradited from the US and is under the grip of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in India. However, the question is that how did a educated, professional human being become an agent of terrorists? If you open the layers of Tahwwur Rana’s life, the story surprises.
Birth in Pakistan, service in army and then towards west
Tawwur Hussain Rana was born in Sahiwal district of Punjab province of Pakistan, from there he studied medical and was admitted to the medical core of the Pakistani Army. As a doctor, he was identified as a responsible and educated person, but in the late 1990s he said goodbye to the army and caught the path of Canada.
After getting citizenship in Canada, he started the business of immigration service, named ‘First World Immigration Services’. Then he reached America and opened his office in Chicago. Rana, a successful migrant entrepreneur from outside, was plotting from inside.
Childhood friendship that became the foundation of destruction
Tahwwur Rana had another important character in his life, David Coleman Headley, aka Dawood Gilani. Both were good friends since childhood. He was studying in the same school in Pakistan and came very close to each other from there, but this friendship gradually became the basis of an international conspiracy.
Headley later became an American citizen, was associated with a terrorist organization like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Tehwavur Rana became his ‘Facilitator’. A colleague, who got Headley’s visa to India, arranged for a journey and helped him in terror related activities.
What was Rana’s role in Mumbai attacks?
According to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Tehwavur Rana not only arranged for Headley’s visit to India, but also supported him to reiki the goals in India. It has been reported that Rana played an active role in the plan of attacks on Chabad House, National Defense College and many other sensitive bases in Mumbai. The motive behind these activities was just one, playing Holi of blood in India and spreading panic. Rana’s immigration business had actually become the agent of terror.
Now there will be an account of crimes in India
In 2009, a case was registered against Tehwavur Rana in India. After this he was arrested in America, but it took 15 years to get India’s extradition. On Thursday, he was brought to Delhi by a special aircraft, where NIA took him into custody. Now he will be tried under Indian law and the process of justice will do its job.
How to become a doctor of terror
The story of Tehwwur Rana is a deep warning that the face of terrorism is not only a gunman hidden in the forests, but can also be those who are seen in corporate offices in suit-boots. When a doctor, an entrepreneur, a migrant, when the wrong ideology and childhood friendship flows in the wrong direction, he can become a human to human. For India, this is not just the arrest of one accused, but a big victory for justice and truth.