New Delhi:
Reports in Pakistan suggest that the detained Pakistani militant Omar Saeed Sheikh was the man who made hoax calls to President Asif Ali Zardari after 26/11.
The caller had claimed to be the then External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
According to the Dawn newspaper, Omar, who made the calls from inside a jail, wanted to heighten India-Pakistan tensions.
Omar was secretly using a mobile phone in jail and he used a UK-registered mobile SIM to try and get in touch with Zardari, claiming to be Pranab Mukherjee.
He also managed to make a call to the army chief. An attempt was made to get through to the US Secretary of State, but security checks prevented that.