Author: PTI
Publication: Mid-Day
Date: October 18, 2004
URL: http://web.mid-day.com/news/nation/2004/october/95012.htm
Amidst growing pressure to check
underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, his ISI masters in Pakistan have directed
him to carry out attacks in India or support would be extended to a new
group led by his detractors.
According to intelligence inputs
and statements of some underworld members arrested in the country recently,
his masters in Karachi have asked Dawood to set his house in order and
step up violent attacks in India.
ISI has already readied a group
led by Anwar, brother of Chhota Shakeel, comprising Syed Muzzafar alias
Munna Jhingda and Yusuf Ghodrawala to substitute Dawood, official sources
said. The sources said that the new group could carry out some attacks
in Mumbai.
Dawood, meanwhile, has made a separate
base in another Gulf country besides Dubai and also purchased shares in
a super market chain, the sources said, adding that he was helped by the
brother of a senior Pakistani politician.
Another factor worrying Dawood is
that his younger brother Humayun's name has been linked with the bombing
of a Shiaiite mosque in Karachi this year, the sources said.
Following this, meetings were held
between Dawood and his ISI handlers during which the don was told clearly
to set his house in order.
Chhota Shakeel, who is believed
to have been distancing himself from Dawood, has also agreed to support
the substitute group, in case ISI decided to dump Dawood, the sources said.
