Why do pakistanis get defensive about dawood and hafiz saeed?
There are some big politicians/cops in India who used Dawood and they would ensure he is not arrested alive by indians. in fact, india would always provide evidence when it becomes obsolete so that pakistan is perpetually maligned and blamed for harbouring terrorists. If Dawood is caught and chargesheeted in India,he would walk free as there wont be any evidence against him and no witness would be alive. Thats why he wanted to surrender but he doubted that indian agencies would rather kill him. Its not at all difficult for India to pick up some shooter from karachi and give him supari to kill dawood by paying some peanuts. When Ajit Doval hatched a plan to kill Dawood using Vicky Malhotra and Farid Tanasha at the behest of IB, RAW sniffed it and spoiled the IB plot only because Dawood alive in pakistan was more useful for Indian game plan than a dead dawood.
Indian game plan is to harass, embarrass and corner pakistan so much using his name that isi itself kills him.