Dawood has 9 houses in Pak, 1 near Bilawal’s

Tribune News Service & PTI

New Delhi/Lucknow, August 22

In evidence to show that Dawood Ibrahim is holed up in Pakistan, a dossier prepared by India lists nine residences of the underworld don in the neighbouring nation and says he is known to frequently change his locations and addresses.

The information about the residences in Pakistan, including one bought near the house of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, son of late former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, in Karachi two years ago is contained in the dossier that was prepared to be handed over to Pakistan's NSA Sartaj Aziz in the event of his talks with his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval in Delhi.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said in Lucknow that Dawood is permanently living in Pakistan even as BJP maintained there was "irrefutable evidence" of India's most wanted criminal's presence there and, that it could not longer remain in denial. "Such people keep changing their location... but he is permanently living in Pakistan," said Singh. Pakistan has been consistently saying that Dawood is not living in Pakistan.

The dossier says that Dawood has three Pakistani passports, which he frequently uses to travel.

Dawood is wanted in India for the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai in which 257 people were killed and nearly a thousand injured. He is also accused of masterminding other terror attacks and of money laundering and extortion. The dossier says a new residence Dawood bought was located at Shireen Jinah Colony near Ziauddin Hospital, Cliffton, Karachi.

“This accommodation was purchased in September 2013 and is located near the hospital where medical treatment could be provided to Dawood whenever required. This place is close to the residence of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, son of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto," the dossier reads.