Tahawwur Hussain Rana  Captain Tahawwur Hussain Rana (; born January 12, 1961) is a Pakistani former military doctor who served in the Pakistan Army. He moved to Canada after gaining citizenship and became an immigration service businessman. 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. His younger brother Abbas Rana is a journalist with "The Hill Times" and had been reporting on politics and the Canadian parliament for seven years. Abbas says his brother is innocent and has no links with terrorism; "To the best of my knowledge, these charges are false. I know my brother. I love my brother. He’s a man of integrity, he’s honest, and he’s a hard-working person." Rana's arrest had a devastating impact on the family. Writing under the heading "Why The Hill Times supports its reporter, Abbas Rana," the weekly's publisher said "As I read about his brother’s case in news stories from Chicago, to India, to Canada, I can’t help but notice the innuendo that appears to imply guilt in the reporting on allegations of terrorism." When the story of Rana'a arrest broke out in American media, the news was kept hidden from his father who is in poor health. His father, who views cable news, was purposely shielded from watching news.