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| Quiet goes the Don to new Karachi den |
| 2003-10-23 |
| Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf claims nobody called Dawood Ibrahim lives in Karachi’s Clifton area. He is right, for Dawood has shifted home recently under State protection after being named by the US Treasury Department as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist". His new address is: House 37, Street 13, Phase-V, Defence Housing Authority, Karachi. With this update, Indian Intelligence agencies have called Pakistan’s bluff after its blatant denial that it has not sheltered Dawood Ibrahim. The agencies have also made startling disclosures about the high profile lifestyle of Dawood and his major-domos Chhota Shakeel and Tiger Memon in Karachi, who they alleged were continuing to indulge in anti-India activities at the behest of Pakistan’s notorious Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). Dawood’s new house, in fact a mansion, facing the Arabian Sea, has been provided stiff security by the Karachi Police. All roads leading to his mansion have been heavily barricaded. Even those who live in his neighbourhood are not allowed to enter the Defence Housing area without being frisked. Apart from the heavily-armed guards for ground security cover, snipers have also been deployed on the roof top of Dawood’s house. The ISI has even posted securitymen in the guise of vendors near his house. Their brief is to alert the security and the fugitive mafia don, the moment they notice anything amiss, according to the Intelligence sources. The security measures were put in place by the Pakistani authorities after Dawood nearly escaped a bid on his life during his recent visit to the Kawish Crown Shopping Plaza in Karachi. The Kawish Crown Plaza is one of the business fronts of Dawood’s vast underground empire in Karachi. Before the denial by President Musharraf had come, security advisor to the Sindh Home Department Aftab Sheikh and the Inspector-General of Police, Karachi, had acknowledged Dawood’s presence in the city. Mr Sheikh had gone on record accepting that the Kawish Crown Plaza, situated at Karachi’s Sarah-e-Faisal street, where the bomb blast had taken place, belonged to Dawood. The sources said Dawood’s movements are now being monitored by Pakistani security after the Foreign Assets Control wing of the US Treasury Department named him. He is not allowed to even venture out of his house without getting an all- clear from the ISI bigwigs, the sources said. Dawood’s younger brother Mushtaqueem,too, has been provided with a home at House no-10, Near Hilltop, Defence Housing Authority. Earlier, the underworld king used to reside in his palatial 6,000 sq ft house that had a swimming pool and tennis courts in the posh Clifton area of the southern metropolis. The Indian agencies have pinpointed the residences and the activities of Dawood and his underworld cohorts. The new disclosure contradicts the official denial by President Pervez Musharraf that there is nobody by that name in Pakistan. Not only Dawood, but his close associates Chhota Shakeel, Tiger Memon and a host of others besides his family, also live in Karachi under official protection, the sources said. Their houses are guarded by Karachi policemen in `civvies’. During the Agra Summit, widely-circulated Pakistani news magazine Newsline had even described him as "agent of crime". Tiger Memon lives in House no. C-201, Karachi Development Scheme, Extension-A. The main perpetrator of the 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai owns a multi-storeyed building capped with a glittering glass crown called "Kashif Crown" in Karachi’s main Sharah-e-Faisal boulvard. They all have been instructed to lie low for a while after the US expose, the sources maintained. |
| Posted by:rg117 |
| #2 Shipman, it's the exact opposite, it is an upmarket district, home to Industrialists, politicians and retired Generals. |
| Posted by: Paul Moloney 2003-10-23 9:54:56 PM |
| #1 Defence Housing Authority, Karachi. I teach in the projects..... Is that what this is? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-10-23 8:09:57 PM |