Pakistan government may be outright refuting claims that Dawood Ibrahim’s is living in their country, but a report in an Indian newspaper Hindustan Times says that the security agencies have enough documents to nail this lie.
According to the report, India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval was going to confront his counterpart Sartaj Aziz on Pakistan giving shelter to a global terrorist in the NSA meet.
There is an Interpol red corner notice against Dawood for his role in the 1993 blasts, which killed 257 people. In 2003, the US designated him as a global terrorist with links to terror groups al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba. He is also accused of masterminding other terror attacks and of money laundering and extortion.
The report says:
According to Indian security agencies, Dawood, wife Mehjabeen Shaikh, son Moeen Nawaz and daughters Mahrukh, Mehreen and Mazia are based in Pakistan with the syndicate chief currently operating out of upscale Clifton neighborhood of Karachi. Son Moeen is married to Sania while daughter Mahrukh is married to Junaid, son of former Pakistan cricket captain Javed Miandad. The agencies are in possession of an April 2015 telephone bill in the name of Dawood's wife Mehjabeen with D-13, Block-4, Karachi Development Authority, Sch-5, Clifton, as the installation address. Dawood, who has three known Pakistani passports, has two more residential addresses (6A, Khayaban Tanzeem, Phase 5, Defence Housing Area and Moin Palace, II floor, Near Abdullah Shah Ghazi Dargah, Clifton) in Karachi.
Indian news channel Times Now called the mobile number and claims to have spoken with Dawood's wife, who confirmed his presence.
Indian security agencies also have documents that show that Dawood's family members travelled between Pakistan and Dubai. They also have images of Dawood's Pakistani passport.
India’s Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh reiterated that Dawood is taking shelter in Pakistan though he may be changing locations in that country.
"Such people keep changing their location... but he is permanently living in Pakistan," Singh told reporters.
His remarks came as media published a purported recent photograph of the underworld don claiming that Indian intelligence agencies have evidence that the terrorist and his family were living in Karachi.
Asked about the picture, Singh replied that he would not say anything without verifying it.
"I don't want to comment on any news," he said.
On Dawood allegedly having three passports, he said, "Such people often possess a number of passports and I have said this even in Parliament. It can be possible. There is nothing new in it."
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