A recent picture (left) of 1993 blasts mastermind Dawood Ibrahim that is in possession of Indian intel agencies, according to a report in Hindustan Times
At the meeting of the National Security Advisors, which got canceled on Saturday, India had planned to furnish fresh evidence that terror mastermind Dawood Ibrahim lives in Karachi, a fact that Pakistan has denied for over two decades.
NDTV has access to a key part of this evidence - recent phone bills issued in the name of Dawood Ibrahim's wife Mehjabeen Shaikh listing four addresses in Clifton area in Karachi, an upscale neighbourhood kept under high security.
Using these bills, NDTV has traced four different addresses in the name of Dawood Ibrahim's wife in that area, which provides incontrovertible proof that India's most wanted terrorist has been living in Pakistan along with his wife and children.
Dawood Ibrahim, 59, is wanted in India for the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai in which 257 people were killed nearly a thousand injured. He is also accused of masterminding other terror attacks and of money laundering and extortion.
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Hindustan Times on Saturday published a recent picture of Dawood Ibrahim.
While India has always maintained that Dawood lives in the Pakistani port city, new evidence with intelligence agencies includes documents that prove that the terrorist's family and associates like Jawaid Chotani - also involved in the 1993 blasts - have travelled frequently to Dubai.
Dawood's wife and daughter flew to Dubai in January this year and his son Moeen, daughter-in-law and grandchildren went there as recently as in March and May, the documents reveal.
There is an Interpol red corner notice against Dawood Ibrahim for his role in the 1993 blasts. In 2003, the US designated him as a global terrorist with links to terror groups Al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba.