<p>“We have asked for the access,” the source told Indian journalists who are travelling with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Kazakhstan.<br /><br />The source said that Rana’s admission has only confirmed what India has been saying for the last over two years about Pakistani involvement in the Nov 26-29, 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people, including 26 foreigners.<br /><br />According to media reports, Rana, who is in a Chicago jail, has, in court documents, admitted to providing "material support" to the Mumbai attackers at the behest of Islamabad and the ISI and not at the bidding of Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).<br /><br />However, his lawyers later denied his "knowing involvement" of the Pakistani government and the ISI in the terror attack.<br /><br />Rana’s accomplice David Coleman Headley, an LeT operative who confessed to plotting the Mumbai attack, was interrogated by Indian investigators in June last year after the US granted access to him.<br /><br />The source said that though Rana's admission confirms India’s stand, this won’t affect the dialogue process with Pakistan.<br /><br />The source said that the reply from Washington on Rana’s access was expected by next month.</p>
<p>“We have asked for the access,” the source told Indian journalists who are travelling with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Kazakhstan.<br /><br />The source said that Rana’s admission has only confirmed what India has been saying for the last over two years about Pakistani involvement in the Nov 26-29, 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people, including 26 foreigners.<br /><br />According to media reports, Rana, who is in a Chicago jail, has, in court documents, admitted to providing "material support" to the Mumbai attackers at the behest of Islamabad and the ISI and not at the bidding of Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).<br /><br />However, his lawyers later denied his "knowing involvement" of the Pakistani government and the ISI in the terror attack.<br /><br />Rana’s accomplice David Coleman Headley, an LeT operative who confessed to plotting the Mumbai attack, was interrogated by Indian investigators in June last year after the US granted access to him.<br /><br />The source said that though Rana's admission confirms India’s stand, this won’t affect the dialogue process with Pakistan.<br /><br />The source said that the reply from Washington on Rana’s access was expected by next month.</p>