Is Most-Wanted Don Dawood Enjoying Refuge In Pak?

Bangalore: Is Pakistan's powerful security establishment still protecting Dawood Ibrahim? The million-dollar question has come up once again after India handed over to Pakistan, a list of four specific coordinates, with locations and addresses of the most-wanted, designated global terrorist and main accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.

The information was part of a list of 49 most-wanted terrorists, given by Home Secretary RK Singh to his Pakistani counterpart Khwaja Siddique Akbar during the May 24-25, 2012, home secretary-level talks in Islamabad.

As per the list, Dawood has four recognized residential addresses in Pakistan, two each in Karachi and Islamabad. In Islamabad, Dawood’s hide-out is an ISI safehouse on Bhoubhan Hill, 20 km on the road to Muree.

The Indian document also has the Pakistani passport information of Dawood’s wife Mahajabeen, son Moeen and daughters Mahrukh and Mehreen. His brother Anis Ibrahim’s passport reveals that he lives in Islamabad and the other brother Mustaqim in Karachi.

Even though Islamabad keeps denying that Dawood is leading a luxurious life somewhere in Pakistan, New Delhi has identified not just one, but four locations of him in the federal capital and in the port city.

Already designated an international terror financier by the U.S. in August 2003, Dawood is wanted in India for the 1993 Mumbai terror attacks and a series of other crimes.