India asked Pakistan to verify reports that the global terrorist, wanted for the 1993 Mumbai blasts, has been detained by authorities in Karachi.
NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday asked Pakistan to verify reports that global terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, wanted for the 1993 Mumbai blasts, has been detained by authorities in the port city of Karachi.
The CBI, the Interpol's representative in India, wrote a letter to Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), seeking its comments on recent media reports about the detention of Dawood by authorities in Karachi after a gun-battle, official sources said.
FIA, which is Interpol'd representative in Pakistan, was also asked by the CBI to provide details about the detention of Dawood, who has been on the run since the March 1993 bombings in Mumbai that killed 257 people and damaged property worth Rs 30 crore.
Dawood, designated a global terrorist by the US, is also wanted in India for other crimes, including extortion, murder and the circulation of fake currency.
According to Pakistani media reports, the US -- which placed Dawood in the category of 'Specially Designated Global Terrorist' -- has approached Islamabad for handing him over to American authorities for questioning about his links with the Al Qaeda terror group.
Some media reports claimed Dawood was wounded in a shootout in Karachi while others said the underworld don was detained in Quetta with his aides Tiger Memon and Chhota Shakeel.
No security official or hospital in Karachi, however, had any information of any shootout involving Dawood.
Another Pakistani official pointed out that with President Pervez Musharraf being in the city at the time of the incident, it was "hard to believe" that a shootout had taken place at a four-star hotel in one of Karachi's busiest areas.
Pakistan's former cricket captain Javed Miandad, whose son is married to Dawood's daughter, has refused to comment on the media reports.
India has maintained that Pakistan's ISI is providing shelter to Dawood, a charge denied by Islamabad.
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