United Nations: India’s consistent stand that Dawood Ibrahim is based in Pakistan has got a virtual endorsement from the U.N. which has 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 which the UN Security Council’s ISIL and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee removed three, finding those incorrect.
The Committee, which amended its entry on Monday concerning Dawood, a UN-designated terrorist, made no changes with regard to six addresses provided by India.
One of the three addresses which have been dropped by the Committee from its list was found “similar to that of a residence of Islamabad’s envoy to the U.N. Maleeha Lodhi”.
“On 22 August 2016, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) enacted the amendments” concerning Dawood on its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo, it said.
It did not amend Dawood’s addresses mentioned in the listing — “Karachi, Pakistan (White House, Near Saudi Mosque, Clifton)”, “House Nu 37 – 30th Street – defence, Housing Authority, Karachi, Pakistan” and “Palatial bungalow in the hilly area of Noorabad in Karachi.
The addresses were included in a dossier prepared by India in August last year that had listed nine residences in Pakistan of the mastermind of 1993 Mumbai serial blasts as evidence to show that he is holed up in that country. The dossier was to be handed over to Pakistan’s National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz during talks with his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval, which were later cancelled.
Bureau Report
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