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LONDON — India has reported a Pakistan plot to attack foreign consulates in two Indian cities.

Officials have disclosed plans by Pakistani intelligence to attack Israeli and U.S. consulates in India. They reported the arrest of a Sri Lankan who said he had been hired by Pakistan’s ISI intelligence agency to monitor the Israeli consulate in Bangalore and U.S. consulate in Chennai.

“Central security agencies have claimed that Pakistan’s ISI had plans to carry out terror attacks on two foreign consulates in India with evidence for this reportedly given by a Sri Lankan national,” the Press Trust of India said.

In a report on May 4, PTI said the Sri Lankan, identified as Sakir Hussein, was arrested on April 29 in Chennai. Officials quoted by PTI said Hussein disclosed his link with ISI during interrogation, information of which was relayed to New Dehli’s intelligence community.

Hussein was said to have told Indian investigators that he was assigned to monitor Israeli and U.S. consulates as well as organize safe houses for two ISI agents. He said the agents were to have arrived in India from the Maldives on forged passports.

PTI, the largest news agency in India, said Hussein was directed by an ISI officer Amir Zubair Sidiq, based in Sri Lanka. The report said Hussein had already photographed the Israeli and U.S. consulates and relayed them to Sidiq.

Pakistan has denied any plot in India while Sri Lanka said it was
investigating the report. In 2008, Al Qaida-aligned operatives linked to
Pakistan stormed a Jewish community center in the Indian city of Mumbai and
killed nine people.

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