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Tahawwur Hussain Rana


Tahawwur Hussain Rana (Urdu: تہوّر حسین رانا‎; born January 12, 1961) is a Pakistani Canadian resident of Chicago, USA who is an immigration service businessman and a former military physician. In 2011, he was convicted of providing support to the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba and of allegedly plotting an attack on the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. He was however not found guilty of involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, a charge for which he was originally detained. Expressing disappointment at the verdict the Government of India stated that National Investigative Agency would charge Rana in a court in Delhi. On January 17, 2013 he was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Tahawwur Hussain Rana was born and raised in Chichawatni in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. He attained his education from the Cadet College Hasan Abdal, a military residential college in Pakistan (where he met and befriended David Headley, then still known as Daood Gilani). A physician by profession, Rana served as a captain general duty practitioner in the Pakistan Army Medical Corps. He and his wife, who is also a physician, immigrated to Canada in 1997, and obtained Canadian citizenship in June 2001. He lived primarily in Chicago and owns several businesses including an immigration service agency, First World Immigration Services, with offices in Chicago, New York and Toronto. He also owns a home in Ottawa where his father and brother stay.


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