Sonia Gandhi is a plant of KGB, ISI and POPE in India

Sonia Gandhi is a plant of KGB, ISI and POPE in India

Maloy Krishna Dhar his book Open Secrets and other public secrets.

"We know nothing about you." told Mr. P.A. Sangma looking at Sonia Gandhi. Every leader in that room were aware of the fact that the Russian spy agency KGB had deposited US $2 billion (Rs 9400 Crores) in a Swiss bank account in 1985 in the "minor" account of Rahul Gandhi managed by his mother Sonia Gandhi that was reported years back in .Schweitzer Illustrierte, a Swiss news magazine. Is Sonia Gandhi, who called Vajpayee a gaddar (traitor) is the actual traitor? Does Sonia Gandhi alias Maino is a possible KGB and the Vatican secret agency Opus Dei's plant in India.

Sonia had bluffed Parliament in the 'Who is who' record which is part of the Parliament record, wherein it was stated on page 291 that Sonia Gandhi had a diploma in English from Cambridge University. This is false information and Sonia does not have even a high school certificate. This amounts to lying to the Parliament. Sonia had gone to work as a housemaid in the town of Cambridge and was learning English in a teaching shop. Russian Intelligence agencies have planted her in front of Rajiv Gandhi to trap him. The nation has no clue about who Sonia really is. What Sonia was doing between 1963 to 1967 in UK if she was not studying? India has no time to waste to find out the truth of Sonia Gandhi. She has a pedestrian intellect and not a suitable material to head our nation.

Who is Sonia? She is Antonia Maino of Italy and was born to Mrs. Paola Maino, in a small village called Orbassano, near Turin city. Her father was Stephano Maino and was a member of the fascist party. Sonia's parents were poor. Sonia was sent to UK from Italy to work as a housemaid in Cambridge. As her English was poor she used to attend a part time English speaking class at a roadside tutorial. Mrs. Antonia Maino was given the name 'Sonia' by her late mother-in-law, Indira Gandhi. But there is no notification in the gazette regarding this change in name. This change of name runs in Nehru family is to fool the Indian public for their votes. Indira Gandhi was Indira Priyadasini. Indira married as per Islamic rites Feroz Khan after converting herself to Islam. Indira’s muslim name was Maimuna Begum and later both had changed their name to fool the public of India on the advice of Ghandi by an affidavit in a court to Indira Gandhi and Feroz Gandhi. .

Before finding out about Sonia Gandhi, we should see what chilling incident happened in our neighboring Sikkim. In Sikkim a CIA agent Hope Cooke was presented as an American research student to the Sikkim prince and future King Palden Thondup Namgyal, for creating an independent Sikkim. . The then king appointed Ms. Cook as the English language tutor to the crown prince. Ms. Cook conveniently fell in love with her student and this culminated in the Royal wedding. Sikkim. Prince Palden Thondup Namgyal aged 39 married Hope Cooke, 22 in 1963 and conveniently his father Tashi Namgyal, the eleventh chogyal died in the same year. Sikkim used to be a protectorate of India, which had overall responsibility for its defense and foreign relations. Barring this, the territory enjoyed some autonomy under the Chogyal (ruler). The Indian intelligence was aware of CIA plot. Our government in 1975 ended the special status of Sikkim and Cook along with chogyal emigrated to US. Sonia could be the KGB or the Pope’s Opus Dei’s answer in India to what CIA did in Sikkim.

Russian spy agency KGB’s deposit of US $2 billion (Rs 9400 Crores) in a Swiss bank account in 1985 in the "minor" account of Rahul Gandhi managed by his mother Sonia Gandhi as was reported years back in .Schweitzer Illustrierte, a Swiss news magazine was not for free. Antonia Maino alias Sonia Gandhi has to payback for such an investment.

Is this the amount Russians paid for buying India? . It is no wonder that Mushareef is asking for the mediation of Kashmir issue by Sonia Gandhi. Sonia was Antonia Maino and was born in1944 in Luciana in Italy as per her birth certificate submitted to our Government. Strangely her official father Stefano Maino a mason, a fascist, and a Nazi army volunteer was a prisoner-of-war in Russia continuously from 1942 to 1945. At the time of Sonia’s marriage to Rajeev the papers had even reported that both were of the same age. So a new birth date of 1946 was created and the place of birth became Orbassano in Italy and the name became Sonia which is uncommon in Italy.

In 1966 she was working in London for an ISI operative Salman Thassir. Sonia’s link to KGB is also reported in the press. When Manmohan Singh's government taken office, Russia called back its career diplomat Ambassador in New Delhi and posted as the new Ambassador a person who was the KGB station chief in New Delhi during the 1970s. So it may not be surprising that recently we made urgent payment to Russia that was widely reported, even though the prices are not negotiated or finalized. Facts are stranger than fiction.

The revelations by the principal Swedish Bofors case investigator Sten Lindstrom on the pressure from the congress government in India that resulted in the misdirection and closing down of the Bofors investigation is really stunning information that points the finger at Rajiv and Sonia. The pressure from India also led to the Swedish National Audit Bureau sending a blanked out version of its inquiry to India. When a team of senior executives from Bofors traveled to India to testify before the Joint Parliamentary Committee, they were prevented from doing so. Instead they met a small group of officials to whom they did not hand over any names He says that Ottavio Quattrocchi, the Italian middleman who negotiated the political payoff through A E Services, and who was paid $7,123,000 as a gift must be interrogated along with Sonia Gandhi . 320 million Swedish kronor had been paid as bribe for the Bofors deal to the Hindujas and Win Chadha.

Win Chadha used to get faxes in Dubai on cabinet decisions on Bofors from the office of Rajiv Gandhi when Rajiv was the prime minister. I still remember the day Rajiv Gandhi visited the Dubai businessman Chabria at his office in the Jumbo house in Bur Dubai in the night like a thief when Chabria was wanted by the Indian police and it was a real shocker for me. I would not have believed it had I not seen the incident. Only time will tell as to what was the reason for that secret and clandestine meeting in Dubai. Italian government has approached our government in October 2003 with a request to drop the case against Quattrocchi which means that the Sonia marrying Rajiv is not a simple boy meets the girl thing, but could be a planned operation by the Vatican.

If Sonia becomes the PM of India the havoc that will visit us is incalculable. Everything about our national security, defense, scientific and technological progress by BARC, ISRO, DRDO, ICAR, ICMR, our trade policies will be an open book to Russia, Rome and even to the Muslim nations. The Italian mafia will take over Indian institutions and businesses. The consequences are very dreadful and macabre to imagine as our nations will be taken over through the backdoor.

In 1996 George Fernandez moved a resolution in the parliament which says that a person who is not an Indian by birth should not be allowed to hold high offices. Sonia never forgot this incident. Subsequently foreign funds came for the establishment of Tehelka, a website whose CEO was a nephew of Arjun Singh of Congress. The chief of Zee TV is close to Congress. Tehelka went into elaborate deception to discredit the Defense department of corruption. They showed senior politicians, bureaucrats and army officials apparently taking bribes from journalists posing as arms dealers. Tehelka.com's sponsor Zee TV prominently featured the story, sensationalizing it in the bargain. As far as the contents of the Tehelka tapes are concerned, they are worth nothing. The 'evidence' of the tapes would be thrown of any court in five minutes. Even worse, they would not be admissible even in an FIR (first information report), without which there cannot be an investigation.

To begin with, the 'evidence' was obtained illegally. Even the police need a court order to tape secretly. When the tapes were shown on TV, most people could not make head or tail of the comments provided by the broadcaster. Parliament was paralyzed for days by the opposition.

Possible involvement of ISI, KGB, Opus Dei

1. During Nehru's time Indira Gandhi might have been on the payroll of KGB. Later as per U.S. Congressional hearing records Indira Gandhi's family most likely Rajiv and Sonia, were on the payroll of the Pakistani Banker the late Agha Hassan Abedi, who founded the Bank known as Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). BCCI was a drug money laundering outfit finally owned by the ruler of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Zyed.

Mr. Manmohan Singh when he was the governor of Reserve Bank of India was advised by RAW not to issue license for opening the ISI bank BCCI in Bombay as BCCI was funding spying in India and was also funding the Pakistani nuclear programme. Yet Manmohan simply approved it. BCCI was used even by Reliance for its hawala transactions. (BCCI had grown as a result of it running a supply centre for ‘Pakistani minor girls’ to Sheikh Zyed and other leading Sheikhs in the Gulf. Naturally Sheikh became the leading share holder of BCCI. These details are available in the US senate reports.) The BCCI also known as the cocaine bank collapsed with a loss of $ 16 billion. All that Manmohan got was a scholarship for his daughter, but his main benefit turned out to be that the congress party immediately inducted him to the party.

Many details are available in our parliamentary proceedings when the collapse of the BCCI was discussed. Sonia had connections to the Vatican Bank which was active in Europe and America drug market where as BCCI specialized in the Asian drug market. Abedi's reach extended to the U.S. also. He even had the former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford as his lobbyist for a fee of nearly $100 million. All this was exposed in U.S. Congressional hearings.

2. KGB might have murdered Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Sastri, in Tashkent, by poisoning so that Nehru family can come back to power. Following the India-Pakistan War of 1965, Shastri met in Tashkent with President Ayub Khan of Pakistan and signed a “no-war” declaration. He died the next day Jan 11, 1966. The story put out by KGB that a Muslim cook with Lal Bahadur Sastri's entourage had poisoned him in Tashkent and escaped to Pakistan may be a cover-up for what KGB had done.

3. Sonia Gandhi was groomed and presented in front of Rajiv Gandhi by KGB, to hook Rajiv which was successful. Subsequently Rajiv marries Sonia.

4. KGB may be involved in the plane accident of Sanjiv Gandhi and might be pure murder to eliminate Sanjiv and to bring in Rajiv as the successor to Indira Gandhi. This paved the way for Rajiv Gandhi to become PM, who is married to KGB agent Sonia.

5. Rajiv Gandhi was killed by the Sri Lankan terrorist group LTTE which is totally supported and financed by christian organizations abroad. Rajiv Gandhi was blown up in Tamil Nadu on May 21, 1991 by a Roman Catholic female suicide bomber Dhanu, 24, whose real name was Kalaivathi. Once Rajiv was killed the external spy agencies might have worked behind the scenes to promote Sonia Gandhi. Potential threats to Sonia’s leadership were one by one eliminated in excellently planned natural accidents which are a KGB specialty.

All the deaths of potential future contenders of congress presidency were killed in accidents on Sundays. Sunday murders are a specialty of Christians and this is well proven in India's North Eastern states where the Christian terrorists murder Hindus mostly on Sundays. Muslims generally carryout terrorist killing of Hindus on Fridays. Rajesh Pilot died in a road accident on Sunday, Jitendra Prasada died of brain hemorrhage on Sunday and Madhava Scindia was killed in a place crash on Sunday. Kamal Nath, another prominent young Congress leader narrowly escaped when a small plane he was traveling in crashed, killing some others on board.

On Sunday 30th September. 2001 Madhavrao Scindia who was deputy leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha and one of its senior-most members, and who was also one of the boyfriend of Sonia in London, was killed along with seven others. They were charred beyond recognition in a plane crash.
Seventeen minutes before the plane was due to land in Kanpur, the Air Traffic Control in the city lost contact with it. The plane caught fire in mid-air and became a ball of fire by the time it hit the ground. Mystery shrouds the circumstances under which the aircraft crashed near Motta village in Mainpuri district. The Beechcraft C-90 aircraft used by Mr. Scindia belonged to Jindal Strips and was maintained by India International Aviation Ltd. In June 2000 the senior Congress leader Rajesh Pilot met with the fatal accident in the highway on a stretch between Jaipur and Dausa.

A retired Indian Police Service officer, Maloy Krishna Dhar, has revealed in his book Open Secrets certain "facts" that otherwise would have remained secret in the files of the Intelligence Bureau, which he served for 29 years. Though some of these incidents have always been talked about at informal gatherings, no one from the IB ever tried to produce it in "black and white". Dhar, in his 519-page book, makes a reference to an alleged plot by Dhirubhai Ambani's Reliance Industries to replace the then Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, with his cousin Arun Nehru.

He also gives vivid accounts of Maneka Gandhi's phone being tapped during Indira Gandhi's regime, the love life of BJP leaders Uma Bharti and K.N. Govinda-charya, an encounter with a Delhi policeman who had managed a posting at a coveted police station in central Delhi after spending Rs 5 lakhs for this and the identification of four Union ministers in Indira Gandhi's Cabinet as alleged conduits of the KGB, the intelligence agency of the erstwhile Soviet Union.

Although the author doesn't provide any direct evidence to prove his points, he claims to have picked only those incidents which had a direct bearing on him as an IB operative and with which he was involved on official orders from his boss in the IB. A former joint director in the IB, Dhar's book also contains a reference to how Dhirubhai Ambani gained a foothold inside the Indira Gandhi administration through certain bureaucrats.

The author also claims in his book that Mr. George Fernandes was rated by the IB as a foreign spy because of his links with Socialist International. "Several surveillance measures were adopted to keep a tag on his activities," Dhar claims in his book. On Maneka Gandhi he says: "The popular perception that Maneka was thrown out of 1, Safdarjung Road is not correct. She had meticulously prepared for the event ... My static watchers and moles inside the Prime Minister's house had noticed Maneka transferring out small baggage items, which allegedly contained cash, from Safdarjung house to her mother's place at Jorbagh ... Soon after Maneka contrived her exit from the Safdarjung residence of Indira Gandhi, I was directed to mount renewed technical and human intelligence operations against Maneka Gandhi and her mother... I was directed to bug the target phone and locate a `safe house' to record the transmitted telephone and room conversations...

The assigned task was accomplished without breaking into the premises of Maneka Gandhi." On Dhirubhai Ambani and Arun Nehru he writes: "Rajiv's woes were aggravated by a spate of `scandals' ... Arun Nehru, V.C. Shukla and powerful lobbies that ranged from industrial houses to thirsty and hungry politicians ably assisted him. In fact, certain accounts attributed a plotted coup by the Reliance Industry of Dhirubhai Ambani to replace Rajiv by Arun Nehru. They were indeed close during the days of bonhomie when Arun collected funds for Rajiv's political campaign. Dhirubhai was known to be a kind financier behind many a successful politician in India."

On the KGB connection, Dhar writes: "My painstaking research and intelligence penetration had succeeded in identifying four Union ministers (of Indira Gandhi's Cabinet) and over two dozen MPs who were on the payrolls of KGB operatives. Some of them are still around... But the most surprising area of penetration of the KGB was the ministry of defense and those layers of the Armed Forces which were responsible for procurement of military hardware. My list of these galactic stars did not amuse my bosses and I was advised to `secure that information' (sic) in my archive. No one at the top had the gumption of illuminating the government with the identity of the Soviet targets... The most interesting case was that of a member of Parliament who regularly received a pay packet from the Soviet embassy for covering certain segments of the kitchen cabinet of Indira Gandhi."

Source - http://journey2truth.blog.co.uk/2005/09/20/sonia_gandhi_is_a_plant_of_kgb_isi_and_p~192221/

The Sultan doesn't Live Here Any More

Dawood's Indian Empire

On the night of May 17, hours after two hit men had shot and killed the driver of Iqbal Kaskar, brother of India's most wanted don and suspected terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, the Mumbai Police posted two constables at the door of Kaskar's home in Mumbai's Bhendi Bazaar.

Kaskar, who has been the operating head of Dawood's multifaceted Indian business empire for nearly a decade, has a posse of security befitting an underworld don. His personal bodyguards carry unlicensed Smith and Wesson pistols. The murder of the driver, Arif Syed, stunned the underworld, as well as the police. No one had dared to raid the headquarters and heart of Dawood's operations, an unpretentious building in Pankhmodia Street, ever before.

The audacious killing was a signal from a rival gang that the fabled Dawood family and its "tiger den" were not beyond their bullets. Dawood himself, as is known, lives in Karachi under protection from the Pakistan authorities.

Why did the Mumbai Police send the constables, who we saw during our investigations and who are still there at the time of writing? They had not come to arrest Kaskar, who should be on top of any Indian police officer's most wanted list. The cynical view is that the police are interested more in the safety of Kaskar than his incarcenation since the underworld is such a lucrative source of hush-money. Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Deven Bharti says the constables are only for "discreet watch."

The police have certainly been brisk about picking up the hitmen-Billal Sayyed, 29, and Indralal Khatri, 28-who killed Kaskar's driver. That would be of much comfort to the Dawood gang, and a signal that they have friends in the right power cicles of India.

Kaskar was deported from Dubai in 2003 along with gangster Ejaz Pathan. Dawood, under severe pressure after Osama bin Laden's killing, heard of the murder while planning the wedding of his son, Moin, in Nairobi. He stayed back in Karachi and sent his wife, Mehjabeen, 48, to handle the celebrations. He even cancelled a proposed video conference to bless the couple.

Officers of the Mumbai Crime Branch say Dawood, who suffers from a heart ailment, has already asked his lieutenant Chhota Shakeel to seek revenge. "We are expecting some retaliatory action in Mumbai soon," says Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Bharti. Shakeel spoke to the Aaj Tak news channel from Dubai and said he was convinced that Dawood's arch-rival Chhota Rajan's friend, Ubed, had planned to kill Kaskar's driver as part of a larger conspiracy to eliminate Dawood's people.

According to Indian intelligence, Dawood, who lives in Karachi along with his brother Anees and lieutenants Chhota Shakeel, Tiger Memon, Aftab Batki, Edda Yakoob and Fahim Machmach, has been planning to shift base. He has shortlisted four African nations as possible destinations: Somalia, Zimbabwe, Congo and Sudan. Intelligence Bureau (IB) officials claim Dawood is trying to acquire vast tracts of land in Africa that can be sub-let for agricultural production. "His operatives are in touch with tribal chieftains," says an IB official.

Dawood's rivals, obviously, see this as a sign of weakness in a man who was once considered the "wallet" of the sub-continent's underworld. There is a feeling that Dawood is possibly making some moves under pressure. "For Rajan, it was the perfect time to send a signal to his rival," says Singh, warning that it would be wrong for anyone to presume Dawood would buckle under pressure.

It all boils down to territorial control, in India and abroad. In India, Dawood runs a Rs 10,000 crore plus operations that includes illegal mining, fake currency, betting syndicates, arms smuggling, real estate and commodities market investments and garments business in two-tier cities.

The don wants to collaborate with Maoists in mineral-rich states like Orissa, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh so that he has a larger grip on the Rs 400 crore illegal mining racket in the country's coal belt. "Last year, he paid Rs 25 lakh to a Chhattisgarh operative but was conned. He is now trying to use the Maoists in Nepal to touch base with their counterparts in India and offer them arms and ammunition," Home Secretary G.K. Pillai told India Today. "He wants control over some of the mines," added Pillai.

Besides coal, he wants to retain the lion's share of the $2.5 billion fake Indian currency note (FICN) market through Aftab Batki who, from Dubai, looks after the operation in India. Once he sent fake currency on ships meant to carry foodgrain. After Indian ports went on high alert, he began using the Nepal and Bangladesh routes. With the recent arrest of K.M. Abdullah, the Dubai-based conduit for his India operations, in Kerala, Dawood is looking for new partners. "Nepal has been the base for his currency operations for more than a decade," said Rajkumar Vhatkar, Deputy Commissioner of Mumbai Police (Operations). With tacit support from the Nepalese government, Dawood transports arms and fake currency from Pakistan for supply across India. Two years ago, he set up two arms-manufacturing units in western Nepal with the backing of the Maoists.

Police outside the home of Iqbal Kaskar in Mumbai after his driver was shot dead on May 17.

His other operation in Nepal is in the country's stock exchange. Nepali Home Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara had tried in vain to raise the issue with his Cabinet colleagues and offered them details of Dawood's benami investments in the stock market and some local banks in Nepal. Mahara's moves were countered by Prakash Dahal, the 29-year-old son of Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda, and Sarina Begum, a senior politician, who was reportedly present at the marriage ceremony of Dawood's daughter with former Pakistani cricket captain Javed Miandad's son. IB operatives in Dubai tracked a consignment of Nepalese jewellery that was sent by Begum through her friends in India for Dawood's daughter. Dahal had met up with Dawood's men in Dubai, claim Indian intelligence officials. Dahal has been under fire for his underworld links for quite some time.

Former Nepal prince Paras also has business links with Dawood and has helped the don run casino businesses in Kathmandu and Pokhara and over 1,000 dance bars in Thamel and Sondhara areas of Kathmandu.

The don ventured into the garments business last year. He set up a manufacturing unit on the outskirts of Shanghai and Rs 2,000 crore worth of supplies were flown to India illegally through the border towns of Nepalganj and Biratnagar. Indian Customs officials say the exchequer loses an estimated Rs 500 crore in taxes every year but no action has been taken against the garment smugglers and traders.

"That's illegitimate, something Dawood has always been associated with. But he is also getting into a host of legitimate businesses," said former IB chief A.K. Doval.

Dawood, listed in Mumbai Police records as an "absconding accused" and charged-along with his brother Anees Ibrahim-with masterminding the 1993 Mumbai serial bombings, is trying hard to gain legitimacy in his businesses. In India, he has been working overtime to develop links with top realtors. Some of them, claims Mumbai Police, were in touch with the don and had sought funds for developing real estate across Maharashtra. One of the co-owners of DB Realty, Vinod Goenka, currently in jail after being charge-sheeted in the 2G spectrum scam, has been investigated for his underworld links.

Iqbal Kaskar

Iqbal Kaskar waves at his supporters after he was granted bail in 2007.

In 2007, Mumbai-based builder Umesh Gandhi was arrested after Iqbal Attarwala, an aide of Dawood, named him in a land-grabbing case in Malad. The police got a clue of Dawood's real estate business after they arrested Karimullah Khan, an accused in the 1993 blasts, in 2008. Khan revealed details of Dawood's benami investments in real estate markets across India and legitimate investments in Karachi, along with his close associate Tiger Memon, the other mastermind of the 1993 blasts. An officer with Maharashtra's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) says they have specific information that several housing projects surrounding the ATS office in Mumbai's Byculla neighbourhood were funded by Dawood's men. "We are verifying the inputs," he said.

There are also legitimate investments that come through proper channels. Sources at the Bombay Stock Exchange say funds from Dawood and his associates now come through the foreign institutional investor (FII) route. "Unless mechanisms are in place, from where do the fiis got their funds?" asks Hemen Kapadia, a broker. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) tried to track such investments. SEBI even tried checking dubious realtors. "Even that did not help them get a grip on Dawood," says Kapadia.

In 2009, IB officials worked on a tip that terrorists had invested in Indian stock and commodities markets and Dawood was instrumental in channelising some investments because of his proximity with several business magnates in the oil-rich Gulf countries. Dawood's clout with the sheikhs was evident after the fugitive was seen actively participating in buzzard-hunting expeditions near the Guddu and Sukku barrages across the Indus river in Pakistan. But investigators made little headway into tracking investments made by Dawood and his syndicate in specific stocks.

Dawood was recently involved in an effort to bail out the cash-starved Pakistan Railways. Early this year, ISI, which provides him protection in Karachi, had asked him to divert some of his cash to ensure smooth functioning of the railways. The request was made when, in a series of strange incidents, freight trains loaded with grain and cement ran out of fuel across the country. According to IB, the request came after senior ISI officials and some Pakistani politicians drew up a list of rich people with the capacity to invest. "His tobacco products, sold under the brand name Fire, are a rage in Russia, the Middle East and Afghanistan. He has investments in the Karachi stock market, construction companies, malls, cement companies and an oil company in the Gulf. His business turnover is over Rs 20,000 crore," says an IB source.

His links with Mumbai film stars diminished after the 1993 blasts but Dawood has now acquired controlling interest in the Dubai-based Al-Mansoor Video and Karachi-based SADAF Trading Company, both known for selling pirated Indian films across Asia, Europe and the United States. SADAF's biggest market is India, where, due to lax anti-piracy laws, sales are relatively easy. SADAF, claim intelligence officials, controls almost 70 per cent of India's $1 billion piracy market.

Though passionate about cricket, the don cannot visit stadiums to watch matches in Pakistan or the Middle East. He, however, controls Asia's biggest betting syndicate through his Karachi-based aide, Shoaib Khan, and Dubai-based partner, Sunil Dubai. In the recent World Cup cricket tournament, where text messages about the final outcome of matches involving India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka were sent to millions of fans hours before the start of the ties, fingers were pointed at Dawood who is said to have raked in millions from the $6 billion betting operation that stretched for nearly two months. "His operatives know their business, they even watch weather reports on international wires before placing their bets," said Singh who tracked members of D-company closely during the gang wars of the early 1990s in Mumbai. "His focus remains countries like India and Nepal where he can provide the infrastructure required to carry out his operations," said Doval, adding,"no wonder he is heading to Africa."

The don's old business interest is narcotics, which he runs through his London-based confidant Iqbal Mirchi, also an accused in the 1993 blast case. Mirchi, who runs some casinos in East London with funding from Dawood, was approached by IB officials to turn approver in 2003 but he refused saying he feared for his life in Mumbai. The enraged Indian government auctioned his sprawling Bhopal bungalow in 2007 for Rs 4.84 crore.

Dawood has been procuring his drug supplies from Al Qaeda in Afghanistan since 1998. Al Qaeda uses Dawood's channels to transport narcotics, money and terrorists from Afghanistan. In return, Dawood provides finance to Lashkar-e-Toiba for its anti-India activities. Dawood also used his Al Qaeda connections to enter Afghanistan's illegal Scotch whisky trade which uses mules to carry the spirit into Pakistan for bottling. The liquor is then taken in dhows to Dubai and other African destinations from Karachi port.

Dawood's attempt to gain legitimacy is born out of desperation. "His vice-like grip on Mumbai Police and politicians doesn't exist anymore," said Bharti. Agrees Singh, who had trouble keeping secrets from moles in his office: "I fought two wars, one with Dawood's men and one with my moles."

With many of his foot soldiers and sharp-shooters eliminated in encounters, Dawood now recruits shooters from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka and Nepal on part-time basis so that the police cannot track such killers. What is still intact is his political support. In the early '90s, it was rumoured that around 75 politicians owed their entry to Parliament to Dawood though none could confirm his clout because there was nothing on paper. Politicians such as Bhai Thakur and Suresh alias Pappu Kalani were arrested for links with Dawood around the same time. An MLA in the Maharashtra Assembly is presently under the scanner of the Intelligence Bureau for his alleged links with the don.

Dawood is feeling the heat. The killing of Osama bin Laden has exposed once again Pakistan's duplicity in the protection of wanted terrorists. Dawood owes his freedom to ISI-and to India's lack of political will.

Why we can't Get Him

Dawood Ibrahim figures at a lowly number 8 on the home ministry's now-withdrawn dossier of the 50 most wanted fugitives from the law in India. Way below Lashkar-e-Toiba head Hafiz Mohammed Saeed and even Major Sameer Ali of the ISI. He is wanted for "conspiracy to cause bomb explosions in Mumbai in 1993 with intention to cause death". Nearly 18 years after the 1993 serial bombings that killed over 250 people, memories may be fading. The isi trained Dawood's gang members to wield arms and plant explosives. It also shipped in nearly three tonnes of RDX, ak-47s and grenades. Yet the bombings are still treated as a criminal case than an ISI-backed terrorist plot like the 26/11 attacks. This has further weakened India's case against Dawood. "Dawood does not get the kind of attention that Hafiz Mohammed Saeed or Maulana Masood Azhar gets," says an Indian intelligence official. That could be because the Dawood gang is still seen as an underworld outfit and not a terrorist group like the Lashkar-e-Toiba or the Jaish-e-Mohammed.

India does not have an extradition treaty with Pakistan. The other more serious hurdle: Pakistan simply denies the gangster-terrorist is in the country. Ahead of the 2002 Agra summit, President Pervez Musharraf told the then home minister L.K. Advani: "Mr Advani, let me emphatically tell you that Dawood Ibrahim is not in Pakistan." It is a story Pakistan has steadfastly clung to even as India has continued to bomb the Pakistani side with most-wanted lists every time the two sides meet.

India has been unable to apply sufficient political pressure on Pakistan to deport Dawood. The closest it came to doing this was between 2003 and 2004 when Advani took up Dawood's case with the US. The US department of treasury designated him a 'Specially-Designated Global Terrorist' under an executive order that would freeze assets belonging to him within the US and prohibit transactions with US nationals. For a while, it appeared as if Pakistan would finally concede to Dawood's presence, but when political pressure from India slipped, it went back to denial mode. Since then, Dawood has used his underworld network to facilitate terror operations in India and expand his presence in the fake Indian currency business and hawala transactions for terrorist outfits.

Experts say there is a case for Dawood to be put in a special category of individuals threatening national security. "The US went after Osama bin Laden not only because he masterminded the 9/11 attacks but also because he was a clear and present danger to them," says former director Intelligence Bureau, Ajit Doval.

With all other options to get Dawood fading, legal experts say India needs to get the US to apply pressure on Pakistan to deport him. "The US was the first to declare Dawood a global terrorist, India should now ask the US to pressure Pakistan into not sheltering him," says Ujjwal Nikam, special public prosecutor in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case.

In 2006, 100 of the 129 accused in the Mumbai bombings were found guilty and convicted by the special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) court. It is the longest running trial in India's history. Indian investigators admit that there has been no investigation that conclusively links Dawood to the 1993 blasts. The sole thread that connects Dawood to the blasts is a confession made before the police by one of his lieutenants who saw him, Tiger Memon and three unknown Pakistani nationals hatch the blast conspiracy. "Even if we do bring Dawood back, can we convict him in the 1993 blasts case? All we have is a single confession made before the police which in inadmissible in court," says former CBI director Joginder Singh.

The Sultan doesn't Live Here Any More

The Interpol red corner notice for Dawood Ibrahim lists two addresses for him in Karachi. House No. 37 in 30th Defence Housing Authority (DHA) and 'White House', near the Saudi mosque in the city's tony Clifton Road locality. Both are some five kilometres apart. House No. 37 is a sprawling single-storey mansion now occupied by an engineer, Malik Bostan. A voice tells me this in flawless Urdu over a gate-mounted intercom. So I set off for Clifton which is less than two kilometres away from the naval airbase, pns Mehran, which was attacked by militants a few days ago. One of India's most wanted fugitives lives in a complex of five tightly packed bungalows set in an acre of prime real estate in Karachi. It is also less than 500 metres from the tomb of a revered saint, Shah Abdullah Ghazi.

The streets in Clifton are a far cry from the chaos of Karachi. They are clean, immaculately maintained and there are few people to be seen. Also missing are the city's ubiquitous yellow and green auto-rickshaws. Land Cruisers and S-Class Mercedes cars swish in and out of large gates. Only a few houses have numbers. Even the securitymen hide behind the gates and have to be buzzed by intercom. Very clearly, this is a place you go to only if you are a resident or have been invited. A bungalow here costs upwards of Rs 10 crore. Most residents are either retired navy or air force brass or billionaires whose industries figure prominently on the Karachi stock exchange.

The 'White House' is a complex of five single-storey bungalows set behind tall coconut trees. Two white buildings flank what seems to be the main dwelling, a dust brown single-storey mansion numbered 105/II. There is another bungalow at the rear. All the windows are sealed shut. The gate has a cctv camera. The walls are seven feet high but there are no high barbed-wire topped walls like the ones at the Osama bin Laden compound in Abbottabad. Apparently for good reason. The residents are state guests. Photography is prohibited, but there are no signboards. I discover why. As we take pictures of the bungalows, a man wearing a shalwar appears almost out of nowhere. "Who are you? What are you doing here? This isn't a tourist spot," he shouts in Urdu. He doesn't reveal his identity, police or military, but has security establishment written all over his clean-shaven face. He grabs my digital camera and shoos my taxi away. A few minutes later, he tosses the camera towards me. The memory card has been expertly removed. It turns out he is one of a dozen security personnel who guard the houses round the clock.

No one will tell you Dawood or Sultan Shah (his nom de guerre in close circles) lives here. Conversations are furtive, names are concealed. "If you want information about Dawood, then I'm not your man," says Muhammad Shakeel, a retired officer of the Pakistan Air Force. The response is the same from most people. Dawood is He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Probably because he has another name, Sultan Shah. A businessman who enjoys the patronage of the establishment.

He has an estimated net worth of $15 billion with investments in the shipping industry, airline sector and garment factories. His business interests are spread across Karachi, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Dubai, Germany, the UK, France, and several countries in Africa. The Dawood group is well-entrenched in Singapore and Malaysia with investments in real estate and shipping.

Pakistani authorities, however, deny any knowledge of his whereabouts. A source believes he may actually be living in Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan. A retired deputy inspector general of the Karachi police advised this correspondent to look overseas. "Dawood and the other terrorists wanted by India do not live in Pakistan. Look for them in South Asia, Singapore, Dubai and Hong Kong," the officer says during a meeting in another part of Karachi.

However, in the course of the off-record conversation, he admits to personally supervising security arrangements for Dawood's daughter's wedding with Javed Miandad's son. "I was told by the police brass to make foolproof security arrangements for the event. The five day event was attended by the who's who of Pakistan-businessmen, politicians and army officials," he says. Another sign of how deep his roots run in his adopted country.

 

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