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| After Khan, Mush cracks the whip on Dawood | |
| 2004-02-20 | |
| "Curiouser and curiouser..." Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s security cover provided by Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has been withdrawn, according to Indian intelligence reports. The proximate reason is pressure from America, which recently designated him a terrorist and located him in Pakistan. There were about 12 men from the ISI who formed a security ring around Dawood at Karachi’s Tony Clifton area, his office and wherever he moved around in Pakistan. The ISI had been providing Dawood with this cover for the last 10 years since the don shifted base to Pakistan after the Mumbai blasts in 1993.
It would be interesting to see just what kind of role Dawood Ibrahim really does play in international terrorism. The Indos project his crime syndicate as a major pillar of support behind the ISI, Lashkar-e-Taiba, AQ Khan and others. According to intelligence sources, he had moved out of Karachi and was shuttling between Rawalpindi and Lahore, where he was believed be at present. However, given his utility for Pakistan’s agencies, the scepticism persists that all these could be just a camouflage to fend off international pressure. Dawood might be trying to leave Pakistan after the withdrawal of his security cover. Dubai, where he has holed up before, is no longer a safe haven that it used to be. Relations between India and Dubai have improved and there’s an extradition treaty in place now. Dawood is on the US and UN lists of terrorists. The Dawood issue is not being discussed publicly by the governments of India and Pakistan. While Indo-Pak peace talks were initiated on the diplomatic level, Dawood and other criminal offenders are being discussed at covert meetings between RAW chief C D Sahay and ISI chief Ehsan-ul-Haq that have been going since January. | |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #3 Does this mean he's soon going to be blown away while muching a breadstick in an Italian restaurant? "Leave the gun. Bring the canolis." |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-2-20 10:59:39 AM |
| #2 Or maybe it's analagous to Adams Mark. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-20 7:19:59 AM |
| #1 Tony Clifton area Was Tony Clifton the developer? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-20 7:18:55 AM |