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The United States has provided additional proof, if any indeed was needed, of Pakistan harbouring underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, who is now 8220;specially designated global terrorist8221; in US law. The UN also has been asked to declare the master-terrorist similarly. The official notification even gives the details of the passport issued by Pakistan government to Ibrahim and his Karachi address. The obvious reaction in India is that this nails the lie of the Pakistani president and army chief, who had categorically asserted that the man responsible for engineering the death of 202 people in the Mumbai blasts of 1993 was not in Pakistan. The general8217;s spin-doctors may well claim that it is impossible for him to know each and every person in the country. But Ibrahim is by no means an ordinary man.
Sindh provincial officials had lately started to point toward Dawood living in Pakistan. The US government, following on that lead and designating him a global terrorist, has taken an extremely welcome step. While one may heave a sigh of relief at this development, questions inevitably arise as to why it took the US government so long. Also, would Dawood be returned by Islamabad to India for trial? As for the first, it is to be assumed that India had shared all intelligence information about Dawood8217;s criminal and terrorist activities with the US since the Joint Working Group on Terrorism was set up five years ago.
