New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has reiterated that it will continue to pursue Pakistan to handover India's most wanted fugitive, Dawood Ibrahim, after a television channel claimed that it has tracked his location.
MEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup also said that the India has shared details of Dawood including his possible locations in Pakistan with Islamabad.
"The news reports referred only corroborates the facts that were already available with us. We will continue to pursue this matter and we expect Pakistan to hand over this international terrorist to us," Swarup said on Thursday.
"Dawood Ibrahim is a UN designated global terrorist and a fugitive from Indian law, at several point of time his details have been shared by the Indian government with the Pakistani side,” Swarup added.
Several media reports have claimed that Dawood is staying in Pakistan and getting full support of the provincial government.
A private news channel has claimed that it has video evidence of Dawood's presence in Pakistan. The channel reportedly has used two Pakhtun men to identify Dawood's Karachi-based residence with address bungalow No. D-13 Block 4 Clifton. The location matches with one of the five addresses mentioned by India in its dossier to Pakistan.
The channel claimed to have checked all five addresses of Dawood mentioned in India's dossier to Pakistan. Starting at Clifton Marquee, a banquet hall named after the affluent Karachi locality where Dawood lives, the team stopped every 100 metres, asking about Dawood Ibrahim's house. All those asked pointed to the same address D-13 Block 4 Clifton.
"They (two Pakhtun men) made four rounds separately from different directions and spotted the house of Dawood Ibrahim. During the third round of recce, they checked about Dawood Ibrahim from a streetside stall," the channel said in a 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.
Recently, reports have emerged that Dawood is suffering from an advanced stage of gangrene and is unlikely to be cured fully.
The 66-year-old gangster is wanted in connection with the 1993 serial blasts which led to 257 deaths and 717 injuries. While one of his associates, Yakub Memon was hanged in July 2015, his brother Tiger is still at loose.
