Islamabad
Pakistan announced Tuesday that the United Nations Security
Council has rejected the Indian proposal to add three new addresses of Pakistan
in the narrative summary of Dawood Ibrahim in its ISIL (Daesh) and Al-Qaida
Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel
ban and arms embargo.
“This information provided to the Committee by India was false
and was motivated by the Indian aim to malign Pakistan and undermine its
exemplary efforts to curb terrorism”, spokesman at the Foreign Office said in a
statement.
He added that as for any previous reference in the narrative
summary, all such references were factually incorrect and baseless.
It was an embarrassing day for India today, when the United
Nations informed it that the three of the nine places cited by India as
addresses of underworld don Dawoold Ibrahim in Pakistan have been found
incorrect by a United Nations committee, which has removed these from its list.
In evidence to show that Dawood Ibrahim is holed up in Pakistan,
a dossier prepared by India had listed nine residences of the underworld don in
that country and stated that he is known to frequently change his locations and
addresses there.
In the amendment, the Committee has stricken through an address
that was later found to be similar to that of a residence belonging to
Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi in Islamabad.
Earlier last year there were red faces all around in the Indian
Ministry of External Affairs when one of the addresses given to the UN was that
of the residence of Islamabad’s envoy to the UN Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi.
Lodhi had shrugged away these allegations and did not offer any
remarks , but The News had told the Indian media that this Lodhi residence
has been with Lodhi’s family for decades, built by her parents in the
early 1970s.
Consequently the UN Security Council’s al Qaida Sanctions
Committee has dropped Ambassador Lodhi’s residence address.
It is mind boggling as how this emerging regional power trips
over itself and provides addresses of highly respectable Pakistanis to the UN.
The Indian High Commission in Islamabad could easily verify that this was an
incorrect address as the Ambassador’s residence is no ordinary one, where VVIPs
are seen frequently driving up when she is in residence.
However, the six other addresses provided by India have not been
amended by the UN. India, in a dossier, had cited these nine addresses as
those frequented by Dawood.
According to the UN, “The amendment also strikes through other
addresses.”
God alone knows which honorable souls live in these residences,
and New Delhi should have the courage to apologize to unsuspecting Pakistani
citizens.
The Hindu had reported last year that the dossier details “new
residences purchased by Dawood Ibrahim”, and lists a property in Karachi “close
to the residence of Bilawal Zardari” and another one with the address in
Islamabad. It is this house in one of Islamabad’s most upmarket addresses that
seems similar to the address of one of Pakistan’s best known diplomats, former
Ambassador to the U.S. and currently the Pakistani Ambassador to the UN,
Maleeha Lodhi.
As usual the UN dragged its feet to verify that New Delhi had
provided wrong addresses and in fact by publishing them earlier had put to risk
lives of those who inhabited these homes.
According to the UN, on 22 August 2016, the Security Council
Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015)
enacted the amendments specified with underline and strikethrough in the entry”
concerning Dawood on its ISIL (Daesh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of
individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms
embargo,” it said.
The UN can seek permission and knock on the doors of those homes
which they say belong to Dawood. Anyone but the wanted don, is likely to answer
the door.
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