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Dawood in Pak, admits minister

New Delhi, September 21
Years after India claimed that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was based in Karachi, a senior Pakistani minister has for the first time admitted his presence in the country and that he had acquired “substantial interests” there, according to media reports.

The statement came after a recent bomb blast at a Karachi business centre — Kawish Crown Plaza, which the Inspector General of Sindh Police said was “ostensibly owned by one Ahmed Jamal ... but actually belonged to Dawood Ibrahim,” Pakistani journal ‘The Herald’ said in a report.

“The IGP’s statement was backed the same day by the de facto Sindh Home Minister, Aftab Sheikh, who told reporters that the Mumbai mafioso had a ‘network from Mumbai to Karachi and was working in both countries’”, the report said. “This was the first public admission from senior government functionaries that the Mumbai crime king, Dawood Ibrahim of the infamous D-company, may have acquired substantial interests in Pakistan’s business capital.” — PTI