India to furnish evidence to Pakistan on Dawood's presence in Karachi

Dwood Ibrahim is wanted in India for the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai in which 257 people were killed nearly a thousand injured. He is also accused of masterminding other terror attacks and of money laundering and extortion.

India's security agency has hard evidence that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim is living in Pakistan even though the latter has categorically denied the presence of India's most wanted and the 1993 Mumbai blasts prime accused on their soil, according to a report in Hindustan Times on Saturday. 

The paper said though Pakistan High Commissioner in Delhi Abdul Basit said there was no question of handing over  Dawood Sheikh Ibrahim as he was not in his country,  documentary evidence available with the Indian security agencies nails this as a lie.
 
India's National Security Advisor Ajit Doval might confront his counterpart Sartaj Aziz on Pakistan on this if their meeting goes as scheduled though Sunday's proposed NSA-level talks  is preceded by a growing tension between India and Pakistan as the latter is  firm on meeting the Kashmiri separatists.

The paper reported that "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," the report said. 

The paper, which also published the documents, said Indian 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. With passport numbers, flight and passenger manifest details available with Indian agencies, there is irrefutable evidence that Dawood and his brood stay in Karachi. His latest photographs indicate that the 59-year-old crime lord has a receding hairline, is clean shaven and has not undergone any facial cosmetic surgery," the paper reported.

In July, India's senior advocate Ram Jethmalani had said that he had spoken to underworld don and one of India's most wanted terrorists Dawood Ibrahim, who had offered to return India and was ready to face the trial.

Media reports quoted Jethmalani as saying that Dawood told him that he was not involved in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts and was willing to return to India to face trial but feared threat to his life. 

Jethmalani added that he informed then Maharashtra chief minister Sharad Pawar about Dawood's willingness to return. 

 India on July 30 hanged Yakub Memon, convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.

Memon, an accountant by profession,  was the first to be executed for the attack that killed  more than  250 people.

Yakub Memon's brother Ibrahim or Tiger Memon and Dawood Ibrahim are also accused in the incident. They fled the country and have been living in abroad (Pakistan) since then.