New Delhi, Aug 18 (Agencies) : As the call for Dawood's head grows stronger, the government is putting its full efforts in tracking down the underworld don's whereabouts.
In the latest development, according to intelligence sources, the Modi-led union government has been successful in tracking down four new locations of the dreaded underworld element Dawood Ibrahim. This is the first time since 2012 that a government has been able to find an accurate location of the fugitive.
There are seven addresses listed where Dawood has been reportedly staying over the years, including Karachi in Pakistan where he is said to spend most of his time.
An ISI safe house is one among the many locations traced by the intelligence.
According to the sources the ISI safe house is on the Islamabad-Muree road, about 20 kms outside the capital city of Islamabad in a hilly region. Muree is a hill station located North East of Islamabad connecting Pakistan's Punjab province to PoK. Sources said the dossier has been prepared keeping in mind the talks scheduled for next week.
"We have prepared a dossier with the latest intelligence inputs. If required, it can be taken up during the scheduled talks," said a government official. Pending issue Dawood's case has been listed as one of the pending issues with Pakistan. Dawood is wanted for the Bombay blasts in 1993 and has been reportedly in Pakistan since then. The last dossier sent to Pakistan on Dawood in 2012 had specific addresses and details of three Pakistani passports held by him.
The three addresses mentioned were: Moin Palace, 2nd Floor, Opposite Abdullah Shah Ghazi Durgah, Clifton, Karachi, Pakistan, 6/A, Khyaban Tanzeem, Phase V, Defence Housing Area, Karachi, Pakistan and Margalla Road, P-6/2, Street No. 22, House No. 29, Islamabad.
Other than these three addresses, four more have been added in the list now, including the ISI safe house where he is said to have recently shifted. The fresh information based on latest intelligence gathered by Indian agencies was put together soon after the Home Ministry's goof up in Parliament in June. The Minister of State for Home Affairs Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary had said in Parliament that Dawood has not been located so far, leading to a controversy that embarrassed the government. Other than Dawood, details of assets and residential addresses of Zaki-Ur-Rehman Lakhvi and Hafiz Saeed, the masterminds of 26\11 Mumbai attack, also figure in the latest dossiers being prepared that could be take up during the talks.
MHA has asked for freezing of their assets since all three are in the United Nations Security Council's (UNSC's) Al Qaeda's sanctions list. "Since Pakistan is a UN member state they should act and freeze their assets. These are international obligations that Pakistan is bound to fulfil," said a government official. Dawood has been in the UNSC sanction since 2003 and the action against Saeed and Lakhvi was initiated after the Mumbai attack in 2008.