What is the address of Al-Qaeda 's man dawood ibrahim's address?

Answer 1

"Dawood owns a number of buildings in Karachi and is said to be living in a palatial house called Moin Palace on the second floor opposite Abdullah Shah Ghazi Dargah in the posh locality of Clifton. Dawood is one among the 20 men on the list of criminals and terrorists wanted back by India from Pakistan"

Dawood Ibrahim

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Dawood Ibrahim

Wanted Dawood Ibrahim by Interpol

Born December 26, 1955 (1955-12-26) (age 52)

Ratnagiri, Maharashtra India Residence India-Mumbai Occupation Drug smuggler, Money launderer, Underworld Don, Crime Boss, Terrorist Spouse(s)Zubeena Zareen (Mehajabeen)

Dawood Ibrahim (Urdu: داوود ابراهيم), b. December 26, 1955, also known as Dawood Ebrahim, and Sheikh Dawood Hassan, birth name Sheikh Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, is the head of the organized crime syndicate D-Company in Mumbai. He is currently on the wanted list of Interpol for organised crime and counterfeiting.[1] He was No. 4 on the Forbes' World's Top 10 most dreaded criminals list of 2008.[2]

Ibrahim is accused of heading a vast and sprawling illegal empire. His name has become a byword in political, business and law enforcement circles. After the Bombay Blasts in 1993, which Ibrahim allegedly organized and financed, he became India's most wanted man. He absconded from India and now, according to the Indian government, is believed to be hiding in Pakistan, which the Pakistani government denies.

After that incident, most of his key Hindu mobsters and even few Muslims went against him bringing down his empire. In 2003, the United States Government declared Dawood Ibrahim a "global terrorist" and pursued the matter before the United Nations in an attempt to freeze his assets around the world and crack down on his operations after significant diplomatic lobbying by the government of India. The Bush Administration, under advisement from the Indian Government, has imposed sanctions on Ibrahim.[3] Although Pakistan denies any knowledge of his existence, Indian intelligence agencies, such as Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), believe that Dawood currently resides in Karachi, and is provided protection, by the Pakistani intelligence agency, Inter Services Intelligence. [4]

Contents

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• 1 Background
• 2 Narcotics trafficking
• 3 Terrorism
  • 3.1 United States Deportation Resistance
• 4 His daughter
• 5 Decline and ill-health
• 6 Depiction in popular media
  • 6.1 Bollywood
• 7 See also
• 8 References
• 9 External links

[edit] Background

Dawood Ibrahim, the son of a police constable Ibrahim Kaskar, was born in Ratnagiri in the Indian state of Maharashtra on December 26, 1955.[5] He is of Konkani descent.[6] He is said to have begun his career in Bombay working for the Karim Lala gang exploiting the rapid expansion in the Bombay (now Mumbai) textiles industry to his advantage.[5] He soon moved his residence to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates where he has business interests alongside India and Pakistan. His career developed in the Persian Gulf states and in the side streets of Nagpada and Dongri in Bombay. His brothers, and Anees Ibrahim & Chetan gaidhane are believed to be his key aides.

[edit] Narcotics trafficking

Dawood Ibrahim heads an organization known as the D-Company which carries out billions of dollars of operations in Bombay alone,[citation needed] he is believed to control much of the 'hawala' system, which is the very commonly used unofficial system for transferring money and remittances outside the view of official agencies. Much of the organisation's operations are in India, allegedly with the support of Government of Pakistan and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). [7][8]

His ties with Sicilian mafia leaders and other international organizations are not confirmed yet, but it is believed that the base supply of drugs and its raw materials are managed by him. Being close to Afghanistan gives him an advantage, since raw materials are made in Afghanistan. His gang members are active in Europe and other continents. The supply goes to Europe and from there to the U.S. and other countries.

[edit] Terrorism

Ibrahim is widely believed to have masterminded the 1993 Bombay Bombings, a series of terrorist attacks carried out in the city on March 12 of the year. In 2003, the Indian and United States governments declared Ibrahim a "Global Terrorist". The then Deputy Prime Minister, L.K.Advani described it as a major development and that India stands "vindicated". Ibrahim is currently on India's "Most wanted List".[9]

The United States Department of Treasury has also designated Ibrahim as a terrorist as part of its international sanctions program - effectively forbidding U.S. financial entities from working with him and seizing assets believed to be under his control. The Department of Treasury keeps a fact sheet on Ibrahim which contains reports of his syndicate having smuggling routes from South Asia, the Middle-East and Africa shared with and used by terrorist organisation al-Qaeda. The fact sheet also said that Ibrahim's syndicate is involved in largescale shipment of narcotics in the United Kingdom and Western Europe. He is also believed to have contacts with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin-Laden. In the late 1990s, Ibrahim traveled in Afghanistan under the Taliban's protection. The syndicate has consistently aimed to destabilize the Indian government through riots, terrorism and civil disobedience.[10]

Washington added that they will request the United Nations to list Ibrahim "in pursuance of relevant Security Council resolutions". The UN listing will require that all UN member states freeze Ibrahim's assets and impose a travel ban. Juan Zarate, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, said that they are committed to identifying and attacking financial ties between terrorism and the underworld.[9] Dawood is also suspected to have connections with terrorist organisations, and in 2002 was linked to the financing of increasing attacks in Gujarat by Lashkar-e-Toiba.[9] New Delhi handed over to Islamabad a list of 38 most wanted criminals, including Ibrahim.[3]

In a major blow to Ibrahim, ten members of his gang were arrested by Bombay Crime Branch on November 21, 2006. They were extradited from the United Arab Emirates, from where they had been deported.[11]

[edit] United States Deportation Resistance

The United States showed "lack of enthusiasm" in getting Dawood Ibrahim deported to India from Pakistan despite making some initial efforts, according to senior BJP leader L K Advani.[12]

In January 2002, a month after the Parliament attack, Indian officials visited the US, where Dawood had meetings with Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. A list of the Top 20 most-wanted terrorists in Pakistan was handed the the US. Dawood mas wanted in connection with the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts. Following the meetings, "He (Powell) told his Indian interlocutors that Pakistan would hand over Dawood Ibrahim to India 'with some strings attached' and also that Musharraf needed 15 to 20 days more for doing so," However, Advani says he "started facing hurdles" soon and recollecting it now "is not a very happy experience."[12]

No Pakistani action was made the following months...

" ...there was only fibbing and foot-dragging. In my interactions with visiting Americans, I began to see, strangely, a certain lack of enthusiasm. 'We do not have the clout to compel Pakistan to act on this issue,' they started saying...I suspected, not without basis, that somebody in the bureaucratic system was trying, in Indian's dialogue with Americans, to de-emphasise or derail the issue of getting Ibrahim and other Indian terrorists back from Pakistan...[India] was 'denied a major success in its war against Pakistan-supported terrorism by way of bureaucratic non-cooperation 'that I have not been able to fully fathom'.[13] "

[edit] His daughter

Dawood Ibrahim's daughter married the son of a former Pakistan National Cricket Team captain, Javed Miandad. It was much talked about that Dawood Ibrahim was not present at the wedding. Javed Miandad told the press that his son and Dawood's daughter met while studying together in the UK.