For the last 23 years, India has made several attempts to locate and bring back Dawood Ibrahim, the underworld don who is the mastermind of the 1993 Bombay blasts which killed 257 people.
On Wednesday, in a major and sensational revelation, it has come to the fore that India’s most-wanted and underworld gangster lives in a bungalow at Karachi’s Clifton area.
News channel CNN-NEWS18 released video evidence of Dawood Ibrahim’s presence at D 13, Block 4, Clifton, Karachi in Pakistan, a claim that Islamabad has denied for 23 long years.
The sting operation reveals that Dawood’s bungalow looks similar to Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound.
The address released by the channel matches with one of the five addresses mentioned by India in its dossier to Pakistan.
“Starting at Clifton Marquee, a banquet hall named after the affluent Karachi locality where Dawood lives, the CNN-News18 team stopped every 100 metres, asking about Dawood Ibrahim’s house. All those asked pointed to the same address D-13 Block 4 Clifton,” the channel said in the statement.
The news channel also claimed to have spoken to police officers in Karachi and the security guard at Dawood’s mansion, “all of whom confirmed that Dawood has been living in Clifton”.
The channel asserted that its “evidence is proof of how Pakistan has sheltered India’s most wanted terrorist”.
Now in his 60s, Dawood is wanted in connection with the 1993 Mumbai blasts which claimed over 257 lives, and injured more than 700. One of Dawood’s associates, Yakub Memon was hanged in July 2015, while his brother Tiger, also wanted in the case, is still absconding.
