Pak tells Interpol that Dawood's address isn't Karachi

NEW DELHI: Claiming that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim is not hiding in its territory, Pakistan has asked Interpol to strike out Karachi as his address in a notice issued for the "global terrorist".

Interpol authorities recently approached the CBI with the contention of Pakistan's Federal Investigating Agency, which objected to Ibrahim's address being shown as Karachi in the Interpol-United Nations notice.

The Interpol headquarters in France sought a reply from the CBI, which informed that the presence of Ibrahim in Pakistan had been confirmed and this fact had also been acknowledged by the US Department of State that has named the don a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" (SDGT).

This is the first time that Islamabad has objected to any international body for stating that Ibrahim, wanted by the CBI in connection with the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, lives in Pakistan though it has been constantly maintaining this stand in bilateral talks with New Delhi.