Author: PTI
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: May 18, 2008
There are "formidable cases" for
Pakistan to extradite underworld don Dawood Ibrahim to India for trial, senior
BJP leader LK Advani said on Saturday.
Welcoming Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza
Gilani's recent statement that his country would consider deporting Dawood
Ibrahim if New Delhi provides "authentic proof," the BJP leader
said that it was first time that Islamabad had officially admitted that the
notorious gangster was taking shelter in their country.
"The interpol has declared Dawood Ibrahim
as absconder and United States declared him as an international terrorist.
The Indian courts have also declared him as absconder. These are formidable
cases for Pakistan government to carry out its promise and hand him over to
India for trial,"Advani told reporters here.
Accusing the UPA Government of failing to
check terrorism, he said that none of the perpetrators of terror strikes during
the last four years had been brought to book and not a single case had been
fully investigated.
"The UPA Government's weak approach to
fighting terrorism is guided solely by vote-bank considerations.. For its
short-term electoral gains, the Congress is making India pay a very heavy
price in the form of blood of innocent citizens," he said.
Advani, who made a transit halt here on his
way to Karnataka on an election campaign, criticised the Centre for failing
to check large-scale illegal infiltration from Bangladesh.
