Dawood Ibrahim shifting location within Pak

The government has got specific intelligence to prove India’s most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim is hiding in Pakistan where he keeps shifting his location from time to time.

The Union home ministry on Tuesday informed Parliament that inputs available from different agencies suggest that Dawood, a prime accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, has bases in Pakistan and keeps changing his location from time to time.

Minister of state for home Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary told the Lok Sabha in a written reply that India has from time to time been apprising Pakistani authorities of details concerning Dawood, including passports and his reported addresses in the neighbouring country, with the request that he be handed over for facing trial here for terrorist activities and other offences.

“The government will keep pursuing this matter through different channels to ensure that Pakistan and its agencies fulfil their international obligations in the context of the Red Corner Notice issued against Dawood Ibrahim and the relevant UN Security Council resolution,” he said in reply.

Earlier, home minister Rajnath Singh had told Parliament that the government would leave no stone unturned in bringing back Dawood. “The Indian government is committed to bringing back Dawood,” he said.

Meanwhile, strengthening its intelligence sharing network with various countries, the MHA informed Parliament that India is presently sharing intelligence on terrorism with China and 23 other countries via the mechanism of joint working groups on counter-terrorism. To another question, Mr Chaudhary, said, “India has Joint Working Groups on Counter-Terrorism with 24 countries, including China.