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India asks Pakistan, where is Dawood?
India asks Pakistan, where is Dawood? - Home - livemint.com
The war of words between India and Pakistan since the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden escalated on Tuesday, when home secretary G.K. Pillai demanded that Pakistans interior minister Rehman Malik disclose the whereabouts of alleged mobster Dawood Ibrahim.
If the minister is so sure that Dawood is not in Pakistan, then he should tell us where is he... According to our information, Dawood is in Pakistan, Pillai said, reacting to Maliks statement that Ibrahim was not in Pakistan.
Pillai said Ibrahim, who is wanted in India for allegedly masterminding a series of blasts in Mumbai in 1993 that killed 257 people, has houses in the Pakistani cities of Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad.
Earlier on Tuesday, Malik told a television channel Ibrahim was not living in Pakistan. I think marrying a lady in Pakistan does not give a certificate that Dawood Ibrahim is in Pakistan, Malik said, responding to comments made by his Indian counterpart P. Chidambaram on Monday.
The Indian home minister, in an interview with the Times Now TV news channel, had asked Pakistan to acknowledge that Ibrahim and other fugitives were present in its territory.
We have often asked Pakistan to extradite or transfer Dawood to us. I think we know that Dawood Ibrahim lives in a house in Karachi. I think the broad coordinates of the location are also known. But Pakistan flatly denies that Dawood Ibrahim is in Pakistan, Chidambaram said.
He said Pakistan had also denied Osama was in Pakistan, but he had been killed by US forces at a house near capital Islamabad. So I dont know what value can be attached to their denial that Dawood Ibrahim is not in Pakistan.
Chidambaram was speaking to the media after his ministry released dossiers on five people against whom charges have been filed by US investigators probing a November 2008 attack in Mumbai by Pakistani terrorists, in which more than 160 people were killed and hundreds injured.
Peace talks between India and Pakistan, derailed by the 2008 attack, had recently restarted, with both countries willing to sidestep contentious issues such as terrorism and border dispute to focus on improving trade ties initially. But Osamas assassination this month has brought the focus back on terrorist attacks in India by Pakistan-based groupsand the Pakistan militarys alleged involvement in them.
India asks Pakistan, where is Dawood? - Home - livemint.com