Confirms he is in Pakistan, and there is no threat to his life.
Backing Pakistani police’s debunking of Indian media reports that Dawood Ibrahim’s younger brother Anees Ibrahim has been killed in an ambush near Shalimar Hotel in Karachi on Thursday night, intelligence circles in Pakistan claim no such incident ever took place.
Earlier, Indian media reports had claimed Anees was shot at in front of the Al-Habib Bank in Karachi when he emerged from the ATM at around midnight. The attackers were reported to be from a group of Baloch nationalists, a majority of whom have shifted to Karachi from Quetta after the August 2006 assassination of Nawaz Akbar Bugti by the Pakistani security forces. However, the Karachi police have refuted these reports. But the intelligence sources confirmed the presence of Anees in Karachi, saying he was deported from Saudi Arabia after being detained at Jeddah airport.
They added that Baloch nationalists have nothing against Anees who is actually at daggers with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) led by Altaf Hussain. His other enemies include the Bhatti gang, a bunch of local criminals who want to assume the control of the drug trade in Pakistan. The Bhatti gang is backed by Dawood Ibrahim’s arch rival, the Chhota Rajan gang. Pakistani intelligence sources say after his deportation to Pakistan from Saudi in August last year on charges of using a fake passport, Anees is trying to re-establish the lost influence of the D company in Karachi. Despite the Indian authorities’ extradition request for Anees from Saudi Arabia for his involvement in the 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai, he was deported back to Pakistan.
Anees’s return to Karachi had sparked new feuds, chiefly due to his short temperament and an equally aggressive style of conversation. Sources said Anees had been living in Karachi along with his other brother Noora Ibrahim who had died last year at a Karachi hospital following a massive cardiac arrest at the age of 50.
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