An official at the Pakistan high commission in Colombo allegedly planned strikes on American and Israeli consulates in south India, Rediff News agency reported today.

Zaheed Hussain -- a resident of Kandy, Sri Lanka, who was arrested a week before the twin explosions aboard a train at Chennai's Central railway station on May 1 has made startling revelations about Pakistani plans to direct terror in south India.

Hussain's confession reveals that Pakistan's Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence assigned an official at its high commission in Colombo to plan terror attacks in south India.

A National Investigation Agency officer had told the news agency that Hussain revealed that an official at the Pakistan high commission in Colombo recruited him to carry out surveillance on American and Israeli consulates in south India and thereafter hatch a plan to attack both buildings.

The NIA dossier, based on Hussain's revelations, has been shared with the agency's Sri Lankan counterpart.

The Pakistani official has been identified in the NIA dossier as Amir Zubair Siddiqui. According to sources Siddiqui has been posted at the Pakistan high commission in Sri Lanka since 2008

The NIA agent has shared information to international media on the condition that his name would not be disclosed.

The NIA agent has told international media "Hussain told us that Siddiqui asked him to recruit people in Tamil Nadu and Kerala and target the US and Israeli consulates,"

According to Hussain a man in Malaysia was the financial brains behind the operation. (With inputs from Rediff)