After Khan, Musharraf cracks the whip on Dawood

The Times of India ^ | Februari 19 2004 | MOHUA CHATTERJEE

[knighthawk]

NEW DELHI: Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's security cover provided by Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has been withdrawn, according to Indian intelligence reports.

Intelligence agencies passed on this information to Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani, even as secretary-level peace talks between India and Pakistan were winding up on a positive note in Islamabad on Wednesday.

The proximate reason is pressure from America, which recently designated him a terrorist and located him in Pakistan.

There were about 12 men from the ISI who formed a security ring around Dawood at Karachi's Tony Clifton area, his office and wherever he moved around in Pakistan.

The ISI had been providing Dawood with this cover for the last 10 years since the don shifted base to Pakistan after the Mumbai blasts in 1993.

[knighthawk]

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Looks like it might be 'open season' on Dawood .

[Shermy]

at Karachi's Tony Clifton area

If the Pakistanis are Andy Kaufman fans, they're OK by me!

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[Shermy]

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[kinghorse]

kudos for reading the article. I think they meant tony as in upscale.

carry one.

I was going to try and be witty with the Blondie reference but was humorously and gratefully upstaged by your post.

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LOL!

[kinghorse]

Oh scr#w it. since this thread is hopelessly sidetracked I gotta go to the KHAAAAAAAAN card

[Khan Noonian Singh]

<< Oh scr#w it. since this thread is hopelessly sidetracked I gotta go to the KHAAAAAAAAN card >>

At your service...!

[Khan Noonian Singh]

Thank you for the Ping.

The article claims: "The proximate reason is pressure from America, which recently designated him a terrorist and located him in Pakistan."

Proximate reason, my a**. The US designated him a terrorist more than 4 months ago. The proximate reason must be something else.

There has been a sea-change in Pakistan. AQ Khan out of business. High level talks with India. Tenet's sudden and secret trip to Pakistan. Now Dawood - the importance is not just Dawood himself but that the US has forced ISI to concede publicly.

We know that the US infiltrated AQ Khan's network, and rumours have placed Musharraf somewhere in that compromised web.

Only part of this secret operation has come out. From the evidence, what the US has infiltrated is more than just AQ Khan's network:

Does the US have full control of ISI? If not, why the public spectacle and humiliation of ISI, offering us Dawood?

Is Pakistan's nuclear arsenal in the U.S.'s safekeeping? If not, why Pakistan's sudden willingness to hold high-level friendly talks with India?

[swarthyguy]

Some background and way too much more info here.

The Bombay Mafias and their Gulf State counterparts exemplify the connections between gangsterism and jihad on the subcontinent and the Arabian peninsula. The stories are petty and tedious but if you're in the mood....

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/478315.cms

Dawood ordered Shakeel to eliminate him at the earliest, but Salem got wind of this plan and fled from Dubai after the serial Mumbai bomb blasts in 1993.

.....Dawood’s cronies have been constantly updating him about the progress of the litigation against Salem in Lisbon .

And suddenly it's not all that nice to have worked with Dawood Ibrahim....

Five year sentences for 7 Dawood aides
The Hindu, India - Feb 5, 2004
5. (PTI): Seven members of Dawood Ibrahim gang were today sentenced to five years'
rigorous imprisonment by a special court under provisions of Maharashtra ...


Key Dawood aide killed
Indian Express, India - Feb 8, 2004
Mumbai, February 7: Prasad Khade, key Dawood aide and a name the Mumbai
Police have learnt to dread, is no more. Khade was gunned ...

Google Dawood.

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Is that little 'x' named Khan?

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thanks for all that extra info.

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"Does the US have full control of ISI? If not, why the public spectacle and humiliation of ISI, offering us Dawood? "

I think it's part of Pakistan's punishment

"Is Pakistan's nuclear arsenal in the U.S.'s safekeeping?"

I don't know.......

"From the evidence, what the US has infiltrated is more than just AQ Khan's network:"

As I said the other day, I think the U.S. is getting tons of info out of this.

[Khan Noonian Singh]

<< As I said the other day, I think the U.S. is getting tons of info out of this. >>

You are right, and we are making good use of the info too.

[GOPJ]

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