 Amid conflicting reports about the detention of India's most wanted man Dawood Ibrahim by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and his injury in a shootout during a gambling brawl at a Karachi hotel, the Pakistan government and some of Dawood's close relatives in Pakistan have claimed that the underworld don is not in Pakistan at present, Ibnlive.com reported on Wednesday.
| "Nope. That wudn't him shootin' up the place in Karachi. We think he's living in Des Moines." |
"He is well, whereever he is," Javed Miandad, former captain of the Pakistan cricket team and Dawood's relative, said. Miandad claimed that Dawood was not in Pakistan. "He isn't here, but he is fit and fine where ever he is," he told an Indian newspaper.
| "He left for Dubhai as soon as he made bail." |
"He (Dawood Ibrahim) is not in Pakistan and there is no truth in reports of his arrest in Quetta," Interior Ministry spokesman Brig (r) Javed Cheema said. Cheema claimed that if anyone had any evidence of his presence in Pakistan, "we would welcome that." Even the Indian intelligence agencies denied these reports. They, however, claimed that the don was injured in a gambling brawl on Monday. |