Author: S Ahmed Ali
Publication: The Times of India
Date: May 8, 2011
URL: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-05-08/india/29522466_1_dawood-ibrahim-javed-miandad-dawood-family
All the talk about a surgical strike in the
aftermath of the Abbottabad raid seems to have rattled India's most-wanted
fugitive, Dawood Ibrahim. The man who planned India's first major terror carnage
in Mumbai in March 1993 has been forced to shift the venue of his son Moin's
wedding, according to intelligence officials who track him. Everything was
working to clockwork precision for the wedding scheduled for May 28.
But Operation Geronimo created such panic
that Dawood, who lives in Karachi, may shift the wedding to Dubai. Dawood
has also moved out of his palatial bungalow in Karachi's Clifton neighbourhood
that his family has called home for years.
Moin is to get married on May 28 to a Pakistan-born
Canadian garment businessman's daughter. The date was fixed two months ago
but no one factored in the international gaze on terrorists holed up in Pakistan
following the raid that killed Osama.
Indian intelligence officials have also gathered
that he was shifting the venue on advice of the ISI. "Pakistan has been
caught with its pants down in the Osama affair and a high-profile wedding
in the family of a notorious terror agent, who is a fugitive from his own
country, is the last thing that Pakistan and its intelligence and military
establishments want now," said a senior intelligence officer.
"Arranging a wedding and hosting guests
in Dubai is not a difficult job for Dawood who enjoys a great equation with
the Dubai government. So we cannot rule out Dawood and a few selected family
members flying down to Dubai on forged Pakistani passports," a close
friend of Dawood, who was deported recently, told officials.
Dawood family
Dawood Ibrahim is son of former police constable
Ibrahim Kaskar. He has three daughters and one son. His fourth daughter passed
away eight to 10 years ago. Last February, Dawood got his second daughter
Mahreen married to a Pakistan-born US national. His eldest daughter Mahrooq
got married to Pakistan cricketer Javed Miandad's son Junaid in 2005.