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Meanwhile, India also said the terming of its concerns on terror emanating from Pakistan as outdated by the latter is unacceptable.
Reacting to Pakistan foreign secretary Salman Bashir’s remarks that India’s contention about terror from Pakistan is outdated, foreign secretary Nirupama Rao said: “We have real concerns about terror emanating from. They are not outdated.”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 The ‘outdated’ word cannot apply.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
