India claims Dawood in Pakistan

Days after al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed by the US in Pakistan?s Abbottabad town, India claimed underworld don Dawood Ibrahim is also hiding in the neighbouring country.

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said India has often asked Pakistan for Dawood?s extradition, but in vain.

“We have often asked Pakistan to extradite or transfer Dawood to us. I think we all know that Dawood Ibrahim lives in a house in Karachi. I think the broad coordinates of the location are also known. But the Pakistan flatly denies that Dawood Ibrahim is in Pakistan,” Chidambaram told Times Now in an interview.

He said Pakistan must own up sheltering terrorists in its soil.

“I think we must continue to mobilise international opinion against all the terrorists and those who have fled the law and those who are sheltering in Pakistan, both terrorist and fugitives. Pakistan must own up to them…own up who is in Pakistan soil,” Chidambaram said.

Osama was killed in Pakistan on May 2, ending an almost decade long manhunt for the world’s most sought after terrorist.

Responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, that killed about 3,000 people, bin Laden was hunted worldwide only to be found nearly ten years later in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, which is in close proximity to capital Islamabad.