A senior Indian minister has said that
his government is aware that Mumbai
underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, the
alleged mastermind of the 1993
Mumbai serial blasts, is living in
Pakistan, according to local media
reports Saturday.
"We know where he (Dawood) is but
surely no one is allowing, no one will
allow me to go to the place and point
out his house," Indian Home Minister
P. Chidambaram told the media Friday.
The minister said the matter was
raised with Pakistan on several
occasions.
"We have raised it with Pakistan. I
have raised it with my counterparts.
They are in flat denial. They deny that
Dawood Ibrahim is in Pakistan," he
said.
The 1993 Mumbai blasts were a series
of 13 bomb explosions that took place
in Mumbai on 12 March, 1993. The
coordinated attacks killed 250 people
and injured over 700 others. Dawood
Ibrahim fled India following the 1993
Mumbai serial blasts.
In an apparent reduced replica of the
1993 blasts, 19 were killed in July this
year in a triple bomb attack in
Mumbai. Police suspect underworld
criminals were involved in the blasts.