Hand over Dawood Ibrahim to India, Advani advised Musharraf in 2001
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By PTI
NEW DELHI: India’s quest to deliver fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim to justice has remained unfulfilled up to now however in 2001, the then Union Home Minister L Ok Advani had put the uncomfortable query of handing over the worldwide terrorist to visiting Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf.
“Musharraf’s face suddenly turned red and unfriendly. Hardly able to conceal his discomfort, he said something that I regarded as quite offensive,” Advani had recalled in a blogpost in 2011.
Advani had known as on Musharraf, who was in India for the Agra Summit with the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was staying on the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
The former residence minister had additionally identified that Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s hideout within the garrison city of Abbottabad was constructed when Musharraf was “in total command of the situation” in Pakistan.
Caught off-guard, Musharraf had emphatically denied that Dawood was in his nation, a declare {that a} Pakistani official later stated was a “white lie”.
“Musharraf, his unease palpable, replied assertively: ‘Mr. Advani, let me tell you emphatically that Dawood Ibrahim is not in Pakistan’,” the BJP veteran had written in his weblog.
But “later, one of the Pakistani officials who was present during the meeting said to me, ‘What our president said about Dawood Ibrahim on that day was a white lie’,” wrote Advani.
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The BJP chief likened the “white lie” about Dawood to what Pakistanis had been feeding to Americans all these years about Osama bin Laden.
Narrating the sequence of occasions, Advani stated Musharraf had responded positively to his suggestion of getting an extradition treaty between India and Pakistan.
Advani then requested him to make a “great contribution to the peace process if you handed over to India Dawood Ibrahim, who is the prime accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case and who lives in Karachi”.
The US had designated Dawood Ibrahim as a “specially designated global terrorist” final yr.
The query about handing over Dawood Ibrahim was put to Mohsin Butt, the chief of Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency, who was in India for a gathering of the Interpol in October final yr.
Butt had stayed mum and walked away at the same time as media individuals fired a volley of questions on the prime Pakistani officer.
Based in Karachi and wished for a number of terror actions in India, together with the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, Ibrahim already has a bounty of USD 25 million on his head introduced by the United Nations Security Council in 2003.
He is amongst India’s most wished males, together with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief Hafiz Saeed, Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Maulana Masood Azhar, Hizbul Mujahideen founder Syed Salahuddin and his shut aide Abdul Rauf Asghar.
Musharraf died in Dubai on Sunday on the age of 79 after battling an incurable illness.
He lived in self-imposed exile within the UAE to keep away from legal fees in opposition to him in Pakistan.
NEW DELHI: India’s quest to deliver fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim to justice has remained unfulfilled up to now however in 2001, the then Union Home Minister L Ok Advani had put the uncomfortable query of handing over the worldwide terrorist to visiting Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf.
“Musharraf’s face suddenly turned red and unfriendly. Hardly able to conceal his discomfort, he said something that I regarded as quite offensive,” Advani had recalled in a blogpost in 2011.
Advani had known as on Musharraf, who was in India for the Agra Summit with the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was staying on the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
The former residence minister had additionally identified that Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s hideout within the garrison city of Abbottabad was constructed when Musharraf was “in total command of the situation” in Pakistan.
Caught off-guard, Musharraf had emphatically denied that Dawood was in his nation, a declare {that a} Pakistani official later stated was a “white lie”.
“Musharraf, his unease palpable, replied assertively: ‘Mr. Advani, let me tell you emphatically that Dawood Ibrahim is not in Pakistan’,” the BJP veteran had written in his weblog.
But “later, one of the Pakistani officials who was present during the meeting said to me, ‘What our president said about Dawood Ibrahim on that day was a white lie’,” wrote Advani.
WEB SCRAWL | General Musharraf: A soldier for all terrains — from deceit to defiance
The BJP chief likened the “white lie” about Dawood to what Pakistanis had been feeding to Americans all these years about Osama bin Laden.
Narrating the sequence of occasions, Advani stated Musharraf had responded positively to his suggestion of getting an extradition treaty between India and Pakistan.
Advani then requested him to make a “great contribution to the peace process if you handed over to India Dawood Ibrahim, who is the prime accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case and who lives in Karachi”.
The US had designated Dawood Ibrahim as a “specially designated global terrorist” final yr.
The query about handing over Dawood Ibrahim was put to Mohsin Butt, the chief of Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency, who was in India for a gathering of the Interpol in October final yr.
Butt had stayed mum and walked away at the same time as media individuals fired a volley of questions on the prime Pakistani officer.
Based in Karachi and wished for a number of terror actions in India, together with the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, Ibrahim already has a bounty of USD 25 million on his head introduced by the United Nations Security Council in 2003.
He is amongst India’s most wished males, together with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief Hafiz Saeed, Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Maulana Masood Azhar, Hizbul Mujahideen founder Syed Salahuddin and his shut aide Abdul Rauf Asghar.
Musharraf died in Dubai on Sunday on the age of 79 after battling an incurable illness.
He lived in self-imposed exile within the UAE to keep away from legal fees in opposition to him in Pakistan.
