6 Dawood addresses in Pak, confirms UN

United Nations, August 23

India’s consistent stand that Dawood Ibrahim is based in Pakistan has got a virtual endorsement from the UN after the world organisation confirmed six addresses of the underworld don in that country.

The listing of the UN Security Council’s ISIL and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee also includes information about Dawood’s various passports, including those issued in Pakistan.

India, in a dossier, had cited nine addresses in Pakistan as those frequented by Dawood. Of these, the UN Security Council’s ISIL and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee removed three, finding them incorrect.

The committee, which yesterday amended its entry concerning Dawood, a UN-designated terrorist, made no changes with regard to six addresses provided by India.

One of the three addresses dropped by the committee from its list was found similar to that of a residence of Islamabad’s envoy to the UN Maleeha Lodhi.

It did not amend Dawood’s addresses — “Karachi, Pakistan (White House, Near Saudi Mosque, Clifton)”, “House No. 37, 30th Street, Defence Housing Authority, Karachi, Pakistan” and “Palatial bungalow in the hilly area of Noorabad in Karachi” — mentioned in the listing.

The addresses were included in the dossier prepared by India in August last year that had listed nine residences in Pakistan of the mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts as evidence to show that he is holed up in Pakistan.

In the amendment, the committee struck through the address: “Main Property at Margalla Raod F- 6/2 Street No. 22, House No. 07, Islamabad”. This address was later found to be similar to that of a residence belonging to Lodhi.

The amendment also struck through addresses: “8th Floor of Mehran Square, near Pardesi House-3, Talwar Area, Clifton, Karachi, Pakistan” and “6/A Kjauabam Tanzeem, Phase-5, Defence Housing Araea, Karachi, Pakistan”.

The listing said Dawood held passports (A-717288 and G-866537) issued on August 18, 1985 in Dubai and on August 12, 1991 in Rawalpindi, which were “misused”. The other passports (C-267185, H-123259, G-869537) were issued in Karachi in July 1996, Rawalpindi in July 2001 and again in Rawalpindi, respectively.

Pakistan has consistently denied that Dawood is living in that country after he fled from the law in India.

Dawood was listed on November 3, 2003 and the entry has been amended in March and July 2006, July 2007 and March 2010.

Being a UN designated terrorist, he is subject to assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo. — PTI