Tahawwur Hussain Rana, one of the principal accused in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, has told Indian investigators that he was a “trusted agent” of the Pakistan Army and that the plot was executed at the behest of the Inter-Services Intelligence, according to interrogation details shared with multiple news organisations on Monday. In statements recorded by the National Investigation Agency and the Mumbai Police Crime Branch, the Canada-based Pakistani national said he conducted reconnaissance of several targets in Mumbai and was in the city while ten Lashkar-e-Taiba gunmen killed 166 people between 26 and 29 November 2008. Rana added that his long-time associate David Coleman Headley attended three LeT training camps before helping select the sites that were attacked. Rana was flown to India on 10 April after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his appeal against extradition six days earlier. He remains in judicial custody in Delhi, with a trial court extending his remand until 9 July as the NIA continues its probe. The confession is the first by a key conspirator to directly implicate Pakistan’s military and intelligence establishment in the assault, a claim New Delhi has pressed for years. Indian officials say the disclosure will strengthen their demand that Islamabad prosecute Lashkar founder Hafiz Saeed and other planners who remain free.