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Hours after saying that Dawood had been chased out of Pakistan and he may be in the UAE,Shahryar Khan,Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharifs special envoy for improving relations with India,said he had no idea whether the gangster was in the country.
I have never,never,when I was in the Foreign Ministry or now… (I) do not know where Dawood Ibrahim lives. I am only reflecting what the Pakistani press have been saying about the gentleman, Khan said. The Ministry of Interior would have probably known but the Foreign Ministry does not. I have no idea whether he is in Pakistan,if he ever has been, he said.
On Friday,it was reported that Khan said Dawood was in Pakistan but I believe he was chased out. He claimed on Saturday that he had been misquoted.
Earlier,reacting to Khans Fridays statement,Syed Akbaruddin,the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs,said that India would continue its quest to bring to justice the perpetrators of 1993 Mumbai blasts and that the dossier relating to the attack had never been closed by India.
Akbaruddin,who was in Amritsar on Saturday along with his family to pay obeisance at the Golden Temple,said he had gone through the media reports on the issue (Shahryars statement).
With new information pouring in,Akrabuddin said,they would bring perpetrators of the Mumbai blasts to justice,wherever they were.
We will continue the quest to bring to justice those involved,wherever they are, Akbaruddin later tweeted.
