> Dawood, Memon & Chota Shakeel in ISI Custody!!!

MUMBAI: In a stunning development, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is learnt to have taken don Dawood Ibrahim into custody, along with his trusted lieutenant Chhota Shakeel and the mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai blasts Tiger Memon.

Intelligence sources said the trio was rounded up last Thursday from their hideout near the Pak-Afghan border and taken to a safe-house on the outskirts of Quetta. The sources added that the three outlaws are likely to be moved out of Quetta soon.

With the US mounting pressure on Islamabad to hand over Dawood and his accomplices who are close to Al-Qaida, the ISI is said to have acted to pre-empt possible proactive steps by Washington. Only last week, the US said that Dawood's smuggling routes converge with that used by Qaida to move arms.

As Washington was building up to some action against Dawood, the ISI is said to have cracked down on him in order to save further embarrassment to the beleaguered Pervez Musharraf regime should Dawood get caught by American forces.

The sources said it would have been tactically unwise for ISI to pick up just Dawood and not his trusted henchmen, Shakeel and Memon.

A senior intelligence officer added: "We will not be surprised if the ISI even eliminates them and confiscates their vast wealth. In any case, Dawood and the others have ceased to be of much use to the Pakistani establishment."

Dawood's brother Anees is already on the run. The first indications of the detention of Dawood and his cronies came when people working for them in Mumbai, Dubai and other places found their phones being answered by strange voices.

The men at the other end of the phones asked the callers to leave their names with the promise to pass on the message to the bhais . This has apparently never happened.

Indian intelligence agencies are tightlipped about reports that suggest underworld gangster Dawood Ibrahim, the key accused in the 1993 bomb blast cases, is either injured or has been picked up by Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence agency.

Reports had said that Ibrahim and Tiger Memon, another key accused in the serial blasts case, were in ISI's custody and that Pakistan may even eliminate them.

The Pakistani administration has been under pressure from the United States to take action against Dawood after Washington declared the latter a terrorist.

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Reports about Dawood being injured in an attempt on his life by the rival mafia indicates that he is now a liability to Pakistan and it would be in that country's interest to protect the movement of the man wanted by the US.

India has named Dawood as the most wanted man in their list of 20 top terrorists who are currently taking shelter in Pakistan. Dawood has been living in Karachi ever since he and his family fled India.

A private television channel claimed that reports of Dawood being injured are false and that heis in fine condition. The news channel said Dawood's aide Choota Shakeel denied the incident.

Indian authorities and intelligence agencies are keeping a close watch on the developments in Pakistan.

Originally Posted by Private Ryan

This says it all about how the government of a country like pakistan works....helping dons, wanted criminals, terrorists with serious offenses like bomb blasts flee with fake passports..imagine a government helping somebody with making fake passports...do these so called keepers of law n order in tht country have any respect for the law themselves?? Atleast India wud never stoop to such low levels..period.

Originally Posted by chic_magnet

the govt only does bigger crimes here

the govt only does bigger crimes here

But on the whole, I still think India is better off...