 The Interior Ministry and Balochistan police have denied a report in an Indian newspaper that Pakistan has arrested India's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim in Quetta. | "Dawood? Certainly no...hey, look! Over there! It's William Shatner!" |
Citing Indian intelligence sources, the Times of India reported on Tuesday that Pakistan's ISI took the elusive mafia chief and two trusted lieutenants into custody on last Thursday. "Sources in Quetta confirmed the detention," one intelligence officer said in the report. Dawood was being kept in a safe house near Quetta, said the report, which could not be independently confirmed. Interior Ministry spokesman Brig (r) Javed Cheema denied Ibrahim had been arrested by any Pakistani agency. Balochistan IGP Tariq Mehmood Khosa told Daily Times that the report of Ibrahim's arrest was baseless. He said he was surprised by rumours that India's most wanted man had been netted in Quetta. |