UN ‘confirms’ six of Dawood’s Pak addresses
UNITED NATIONS: India’s consistent stand that Dawood Ibrahim is based in Pakistan has got a virtual endorsement from the UN, which has confirmed six addresses of the underworld don in the neighbouring country.
The listing of the UN Security Council’s IS and al Qaida Sanctions Committee also includes information about Dawood’s various passports.
India, in a dossier, had cited nine addresses in Pakistan as those frequented by Dawood of which the UN committee removed three, finding those incorrect.
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 Pakistan.
The UN committee, which amended its entry concerning Dawood on Monday, made no changes to six of the nine addresses provided by India. However, one of the three addresses which have been dropped by the committee from its list was found similar to that of a residence of Maleeha Lodhi, Islamabad’s envoy to the United Nations.
In the amendment, the Committee has stricken through the address “Main Property at Margalla Raod F- 6/2 Street no.22, House No.07, Islamabad number 29 in Karachi. This address was later found to be similar to that of a residence belonging to Lodhi.”
When asked about the amendment, a top Indian official here told PTI that one address of Dawood in the listing entry was incorrect. The address was “of Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi, and not Dawood Ibrahim”, the source said.
“The amendment also strikes through other 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 says Dawood has a passport number A717288 issued on August 18, 1985 in Dubai and a Pakistani number G866537 issued on August 12, 1991 in Rawalpindi but adds the term “misuse” for these two passports.
He also has passport number C-267185 issued in Karachi in July 1996, Passport number H-123259 issued in Rawalpindi in July 2001 and Passport number G-869537 issued in Rawalpindi, according to the listing.