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Dawood branded terrorist; India summons Pak
envoy New Delhi, October 17 Mr Arun Singh, Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan) in the Ministry of External Affairs, told the Pakistani diplomat that India had repeatedly sought Dawood’s handing over and once again reiterated the Indian demand, MEA spokesman said. Mr Bhatti was summoned to the office in the wake of the USA yesterday declaring Dawood a “specially designated global terrorist”. The spokesman welcomed the US step. Meanwhile, the United States’ move to declare underworld don Dawood Ibrahim as a “global terrorist” was a major development which vindicated India’s stand, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani said today. “It is a major development. The US decision has vindicated our stand,” Mr Advani told newspersons here. He said he had spoken to the External Affairs Ministry in this regard and New Delhi would now examine the full implications of the development. Mr Advani during his visit to the USA in June, had handed over a dossier on Dawood Ibrahim to the authorities there giving details about his involvement in various crimes including funding of banned Lashkar-e-Toiba militant outfits. WASHINGTON: The USA has declared as “global terrorist” Mumbai underworld don Dawood Ibrahim based in Karachi with Pakistani passport, saying he has links with Al-Qaida and is financing activities of Lashkar-e-Toiba and other Islamic extremists to destabilise the Indian Government. Washington will now request the United Nations to list him as a global terrorist, thereby making it obligatory on part of all member states, including Pakistan, to take similar action. “Ibrahim Dawood, alias Ibrahim Dawood, alias Hassan Sheikh Dawood, Karachi, possessing Pakistani passport number 0869537 (individual category),” has been “specially designated global terrorist” and his assets within the USA have been frozen, the Treasury Department announced yesterday. US finding that Dawood Ibrahim is in Karachi and possessed Pakistani passport vindicated India’s assertion that he is in Pakistan though President Pervez Musharraf has denied it. |
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Pakistan denies Dawood’s presence in Karachi Islamabad, October 17 “He is neither a Pakistani citizen, nor does he live in Karachi,” Pakistan’s Minister for Information Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed, told DPA, in Islamabad. “If somebody is aware of his whereabouts, we will receive and act on that information,” the minister said while underlining that “the government has nothing to do with the people being identified as members of the underworld”. The US Treasury Department had yesterday described Dawood Ibrahim as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under the Executive Order 13224 and said it would request the United Nations to also list him as a wanted terrorist. The order also froze any assets belonging to Ibrahim within the US and prohibited transactions by him with US nationals. US media reports, and one by Time magazine in particular, published on the eve of President Pervez Musharraf’s arrival in New York about a month ago, had suggested that Dawood Ibrahim had been living in Karachi under a different identity. —
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Interpol can’t force
Pak on Dawood New Delhi, October 17 “We will encourage all countries to hand over all fugitives demanded by other countries. India’s problem is he (Dawood) is not being arrested in a country he is believed to be in. This depends a great deal on bilateral relations between India and Pakistan,” Mr Nobel told newspersons at a press conference here after the conclusion of a three-day Third International Conference on Fugitives. Mr Nobel hoped that Pakistan would cooperate as it was part of the Interpol and was also party to the unanimous resolution adopted during the conference, in which the member countries had agreed to honour Red Corner notices issued by various countries for tracing and arresting fugitives. “The conference arrived at certain unanimous decisions, including giving legal sanctity to and honouring Red Corner notices issued by Interpol. The Pakistani delegate not only participated in the three-day meet, but was also part of the resolution in this regard,” Mr Nobel said. CBI Director P.C. Sharma, who is also the Vice-President of Ineterpol, said the Interpol was “not a political organisation but a professional body comprising 181 member countries.” |
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