Canada moves to revoke Tahawwur Rana’s citizenship ahead of Carney’s visit to India: Report
The Hindu
Canada seeks to revoke Tahawwur Rana's citizenship ahead of Carney's India visit due to misrepresentation in his application.
Ahead of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to India, the Canadian government is pushing to revoke the citizenship of a Pakistan-born, Tahawwur Rana Hussain, accused of playing a key role in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack.
Rana, 64, is a Pakistan-born Canadian national and close associate of one of the main conspirators of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, David Coleman Headley, alias Daood Gilani, a U.S. citizen.
Documents obtained by Global News show that immigration officials have notified Rana that they intend to strip him of the Canadian citizenship he acquired in 2001.
He immigrated to Canada in 1997 and was later convicted in the U.S. of plotting to attack staff at a Danish newspaper.
Rana, the mastermind behind the 26/11 attack, which killed 166 people, was extradited from the United States to India in April 2025. He was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) as soon as he landed in New Delhi.
In its decision, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) wrote that Rana’s citizenship was being revoked not for terrorism, but rather because he lied on his application form, the report added.
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