Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's public relations officer on Saturday said David Coleman Headley, a terror suspect under arrest in the US, is his half-brother but insisted his family was not related to the premier.
Public relations officer Danyal Gilani said in a statement that Indian media reports "trying to establish a relationship between Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and the family of detained US terror suspect and my half-brother, Daood Gilani alias David Coleman Headley, is "incorrect, misplaced and totally baseless".
The report is speculative and intended to create "unnecessary hype", Danyal Gilani said. He said his ancestors migrated to Pakistan from Jastarwal in India's Punjab state and Etawah in Uttar Pradesh while the premier's family has been living in Multan "for centuries" and the two families "have no relationship with each other".
Danyal Gilani also acknowledged that the Prime Minister had issued a condolence message on his father Syed Saleem Gilani's death in December last year and visited his house to offer condolences.
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Pak PM Gilani's PRO is Headley's half-brother