UK freezes Dawood Ibrahim’s assets

India’s claim of most wanted gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s presence in Pakistan on Tuesday got further strengthened as UK’s newly updated list of financial sanctions against Dawood contained four addresses in Pakistan, where he is reported to be based.

India’s most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, against whom an international arrest warrant has been issued, appeared on the UK Treasury department’s ‘Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets in the UK’ updated on January 27 with four recorded addresses in Pakistan - all in Karachi.

“Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar” is recorded to have lived at: House No 37, 30th Street - Defence Housing Authority, Karachi, Pakistan; House no. 29, Margalla Road, F 6/2 Street no 22, Karachi, Pakistan; Noorabad, Karachi, Pakistan (Palatial bungalow in the hilly area); and White House, Near Saudi Mosque, Clifton, Karachi, Pakistan.

The Mumbai-born gangster’s nationality is listed as “Indian”, with a recorded Indian passport which was subsequently revoked by the government of India and then goes on to list a string of Indian and Pakistani passports acquired by him and misused. 

“International arrest warrant issued by the Government of India. Also referred to as Hizrat,” the listing, first made on November 7, 2003, concludes.

Earlier, India had prepared a dossier for NSA-level talks with Islamabad which states that as recently as September 2013, Dawood acquired a new residence in Karachi’s Clifton area that is close to the residence of Bilawal Zardari, son of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. 

The dossier cites also  the address as Shireen Jinnah Colony, near Ziauddin Hospital, Clifton, Karachi. 

It is “located near Ziauddin Hospital, where medical treatment could be provided to Dawood Ibrahim whenever required. The place is close to the residence of Bilawal Zardari”, it adds. 

Dawood has time and again been reported to be based in Pakistan but Islamabad has denied his presence.