‘Dawood’s security enhanced by Pak Army’

Security of underworld don and India’s most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim has been enhanced in Pakistan after the arrest of his bete noire Chhota Rajan in Indonesia. Special commandos of the Pakistan army have been deployed at Dawood’s residences in Karachi and Islamabad, where he has been living for over two decades after the 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai, sources said quoting intelligence reports.  The army commandos were deployed for the security of Dawood in the wake of Rajan’s arrest in Bali on October 25. Rajan is expected to be brought to India in a few days after the completion of his deportation formalities in Indonesia. Rajan told reporters that Dawood is in Pakistan under ISI protection.

Pakistan, so far, has been denying presence of Dawood on its soil. However, India has maintained that the most-wanted terrorist has his bases in Karachi and Islamabad. New Delhi has also given several dossiers to Islamabad on Dawood over the years incorporating his criminal acts in India. Home Minister Rajnath Singh had said that Dawood keeps changing his location but he is permanently living in Pakistan. Singh had also said in Parliament that the government would leave no stone unturned to bring back Dawood. Rajan, once a close confidante-turned-rival of Dawood, has said that he is not afraid of Dawood. In 2000, there was an attempt on Rajan’s life when Dawood’s men tracked him down to a hotel in Bangkok but he managed a dramatic escape.