Pak to consider request for extraditing Dawood: Gilani

Pakistan will take action against any terrorist group operating against India from its soil and consider a request for extraditing underworld don Dawood Ibrahim if New Delhi provides ‘authentic proof’ in this regard, PM Yousuf Raza Gilani has said.

Pakistan will take action against any terrorist group operating against India from its soil and consider a request for extraditing underworld don Dawood Ibrahim if New Delhi provides ‘authentic proof’ in this regard, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said.

Gilani said his government could also consider India’s request for access to terrorist leaders like Masood Azhar, who was released in return for safety of passengers of Indian Airlines plane hijacked to Kandahar in 1999, if it is backed by evidence.

Rejecting India’s concerns over terrorism in Kashmir being financed and executed by Pakistan-based groups like Lashker-e-Toiba with the backing of the Inter-Services Intelligence, he said, “we are already working with the whole world for extremism and terrorism and our point of view is extremely clear that we are against terrorism and extremism”.

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“We have lost our own leader (former Premier) Benazir Bhutto because of (terrorism). How can I deny that? At the same time, we are fighting against terrorism”, Gilani told interviewer Karan Thapar on Devil’s Advocate.

When pointed out that several outlawed terrorist groups like Lashker-e-Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Al-Badr re-emerged in Pakistan in recent months after changing their names, Gilani said his government would act against such groups because ‘we are against terrorism and we are against them. We will not be supporting any terrorist’.

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