Is Headley distantly related to Pak PM?

NEW DELHI: As investigators dig deep into the antecedents of terror suspect David Headley alias Daood Gilani, indications have emerged that he may be distantly related to Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

Sources close to the investigation said that Headley's father Sayed Salim Gilani, a Pakistani diplomat and former Director General of Radio Pakistan, traced his ancestry to the same Gilani family to which the prime minister belongs.

Daood Gilani, who changed his name to David Coleman Headley three years back, was arrested by FBI in Chicago last month for allegedly plotting terror attacks in India along with a Canadian-Pakistani Tahawwur Rana.

Headley's step brother Danyal Gilani was working in the office of Pakistan Prime Minister as his Public Relations Officer (PRO), the sources said.

PM Gilani issued a condolence message when Salim Gilani passed away on Christmas last year at the age of 80 and may have attended the funeral, according to the sources.