With US mounting pressure on Islamabad to reveal underworld don's whereabouts, Pervez Musharraf has shifted him to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border ---- Mafia don and wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim was living in Karachi with a Pakistani passport under a different name since the serial Mumbai bombings in March 1993, in which over 300 people were killed. The entire operation was orchestrated by him from Dubai, where he was living before March 1993. He had the perpetrators of the blasts trained clandestinely by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in Pakistan. After the training, they returned to Mumbai and carried out the bombings with the help of explosives, detonators and timers given by the ISI. These were clandestinely shipped to landing points on the western coast of India in boats hired by Dawood.When his involvement in the blasts was proved, the Indian Government requested the Dubai authorities for Dawood's deportation. The Dubai authorities advised him to leave their country. He shifted to Karachi. The Pakistani media reported from time to time about his presence in Karachi and the activities of his mafia group from Pakistani territory. They also reported that many retired officers of the Pakistani intelligence community had been employed by him as security officers. At the request of the Government of India, the International Police Organisa-tion (Interpol) based in Lyons, France, issued many look-out notices for his arrest and deportation to India, if found in the territory of any member-country. The notices also gave his Karachi address.
In response to these notices, Pakistan kept denying the presence of Dawood. The matter was taken up by then Prime Minister AB Vajpayee with President Pervez Musharraf during their meeting in Agra in July 2001, and again in Islamabad in January 2004. Dawood's name also figured in the list of 20 terrorists wanted for trial in India, which was handed over by New Delhi to Islamabad in the beginning of 2002. The stock response from Gen Musharraf was that Dawood Ibrahim "was not in Pakistan".