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India knows where Dawood lives in Pakistan: Chidambaram

NEW DELHI: Home minister P Chidambaram on Friday said India knew where underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was but no one would allow it to go to the place and point out his house even as Pakistan consistently denied his presence in the country. The home minister also said India was not surprised that the US had discovered Pakistani intelligence agency ISIs links with terror outfits, including the Haqqani network. Asked about Dawoods presence in Karachi as claimed by the dons brother Anis Ibrahim in telephonic conversations with the media, Chidambaram said, This is not new either. I think we know more than what Dawood Ibrahims brother told you. We know where he is but surely no one is allowing, no one will allow me to go to the place and point out his house. He said the matter was raised with Pakistan on several occasions. We have raised it with Pakistan. I have raised it with my counterparts. They are in flat denial. They deny that Dawood Ibrahim is in Pakistan. What is there we can do from India except some day or the other that it will be exposed as a lie, the home minister said. After escaping from India following the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, Dawood has been hiding in Pakistan under the ISIs protection. The US had in 2003 declared him a global terrorist due to his close links with the al-Qaida. Asked about the latest American assessment that the ISI had links with Haqqani network in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, Chidambaram said, We are not surprised that US lately discovered the ISIs link with a number of other terrorist groups. We always knew that the ISI has links with terrorist groups.

                                                                                                               
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