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India unveils 50 most wanted hiding in Pakistan

India’s home ministry on Wednesday made public a list of 50 most wanted men hiding in Pakistan with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed featuring it as some of the top terrorists enjoying the protection of its neighbour.

India’s home secretary G K Pillai had handed over this list to his Pakistani counterpart Qamar Zaman Choudhary in March this year.

With Pakistan cornered over the discovery of Osama bin Laden in its territory after the US Navy Seals and CIA operatives killed him in a covert operation on May 2, India is now better positioned to tell before the world how terrorists targeting India are finding a safe haven in Pakistan.

At least 21 of those in the list are from the Dawood group. They included Anees Ibrahim, Tiger Memon and Chhota Shakeel.

26/11 mastermind Hafeez Saeed tops the list.

Hafiz Muhammad Saeed leads Jama’at-ud-Da’wah, a charity thought to be a cover organisation for militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

The United Nations has declared Jama’at-ud-Da’wah a terrorist organisation in December 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader.

The list of 50 also includes Maulana Masood Azhar, the mastermind of the Kandahar hijacking in December 1999.

Meanwhile, India also said the terming of its concerns on terror emanating from Pakistan as outdated by the latter is unacceptable.

Reacting to Pakistan foreign secretary Salman Bashir’s remarks that India’s contention about terror from Pakistan is outdated, foreign secretary Nirupama Rao said: “We have real concerns about terror emanating from. They are not outdated.”

She also tweeted: “No use by date’ on our demand for justice on 26/11. The ‘outdated’ word cannot apply. We are consistent about this and Pakistan knows this.”

She said at same time, there is no denying need for sober and reasoned dialogue between India and Pakistan “on all issues that complicate our relations.”

The 50 most wanted list is as follows:

Hafiz Mohammed Saeed

Sajjid Majid

Syed Hashim Abdur Rehman Pasha

Major Iqbal

Illyas Kashmiri

Rashid Abdullah

Major Sameer Ali

Dawood Ibrahim

Memon Ibrahim

Chota Shakeel

Memon Abdul Razak

Anis Ibrahim

Anwar Ahmed Haji Jamal

Mohammed Dosa

Javed Chikna

Salim Abdul Ghazi

Riyaz Khatri

Munaf Halari

Mohammed Salim Mujhahid

Khan Bashir Ahmed

Yakub Yeda Khan

Mohammed Memon

Irfan Chaugule

Feroz Rashid Khan

Ali Moosa

Sagir Ali Shaikh

Aftab Batki

Maulana Mohammed Masood Azhar

Salauddin

Azam Cheema

Syed Zabiuddin Jabi

Ibrahim Athar

Azhar Yusuf

Zahur Ibrahim Mistri

Akhtar Sayeed

Mohammed Shakir

Rauf Abdul

Amanullah Khan

Sufiyan Mufti

Nachan Akmal

Pathan Yaqoob Khan

CAM Bashir

Lakhbir Singh Rode

Paramjit Singh Pamma

Ranjit Singh

Wadhawa Singh

Abu Hamza

Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi

Amir Raza Khan

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