The 1993 Mumbai terror attack mastermind, a fugitive India has been desperately wanting to bring back, is finding it difficult to resolve this sudden situation, despite all the man and muscle power he has at his disposal
With his only son turning his back on the "family business" and choosing to become a 'Maulana', absconding don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar is learnt to be suffering from bouts of depression, a news agency has reported.
The 1993 Mumbai terror attack mastermind, a fugitive India has been desperately wanting to bring back, is finding it difficult to resolve this sudden situation, despite all the man and muscle power he has at his disposal.
According to the report, 31- year-old Moin Nawaz D Kaskar, the third child and only son of Dawood is a devout Muslim who has chosen to become a Maulana, or a cleric-cum-religious teacher.
"Moin is understood to be deadly against his father's illegal activities, which have given the entire family a notorious reputation worldwide and made many of them wanted fugitives everywhere," Thane Anti-Extortion Cell head Pradeep Sharma told the news agency.
He said this and other nuggets of an internal strife in the family tumbled out in bits and pieces during the ongoing interrogation of Iqbal Ibrahim Kaskar, Dawood's younger brother, who was nabbed in three extortion cases last September by the Thane AEC.
Iqbal Kaskar has informed the investigators that a deeply worried Dawood is afflicted by bouts of despondency over who would look after and handle his vast underworld empire in the future.
More so, as his other brother Anees Ibrahim Kaskar is now ageing and reportedly not in robust health, other brothers are deceased and no reliable close relatives available to take over the reins of the empire.
Iqbal Kaskar told the investigators that his nephew Moin is now a respected and qualified Maulana. He has discarded the comforts of the family's palatial bungalow in the fashionable Clifton area in the posh Saddar suburb of Karachi and opted to live a mendicant's life in a mosque adjacent to their home.
However, his wife Saniya and their three minor children have not abandoned him and are living with him in the small quarters provided by the mosque management.
Earlier, Moin, who is a business management graduate, used to help out his father in some of his line of works, but gradually drifted away to the "divine call of Allah", according to the information given by Iqbal Kaskar to the investigators, the report says.
Of Moin's siblings, Mahrukh got married in 2006 to Junaid, the son of Pakistani cricketer Javed Miandad, and Mahreen got hitched to a US-based businessman's son in 2011.
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