KARACHI: Pakistan has strongly denied the presence on its soil of a notorious Interpol-wanted Indian criminal, Dawood Ibrahim, after the Indian media spotted the gangster’s name on a recent list by the Pakistani Foreign Office of individuals whose assets have been frozen over terrorism links.
Ibrahim has led an organized crime syndicate in Mumbai, India, and is also wanted for ordering a series of bomb explosions that took place in the city in 1993. His name and address in the Pakistani metropolis of Karachi appeared on the statutory notification (SRO) issued by Pakistan on Aug. 18 in a move to avoid the country’s blacklisting by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which monitors money laundering and tracks activities of terrorist groups.
“The assertions, made by some sections of the Indian media, as to Pakistan admitting to the presence of certain listed individuals on its territory, based on the information contained in the SRO, are baseless and misleading,” the Foreign Office said in statement on Saturday evening, in response to the Indian press reports.
The statement said the information contained in the SRO was reproduced from the United Nations Security Council’s lists on sanctioned individuals belonging to terrorist groups, which also mention the names of persons who are already dead.
On Sunday, Indian media reported that Pakistan had admitted Ibrahim’s presence on its soil after the SRO mentioned three residential addresses of the gangster in Karachi. The addresses, which could not be independently verified, were first reported in a story by freelance journalist Ghulam Husnain in the Newsline magazine’s September 2001 issue. The same article later became grounds for India to claim that the criminal was living in Pakistan. Interpol issued an arrest warrant for Ibrahim in April 2006.
Ibrahim’s addresses were published on the Pakistani Foreign Office’s website already in November last year.
On June 26, Indian media outlets reported that Ibrahim had died of the coronavirus.
Pakistan denies presence of Interpol-wanted Indian gangster in Karachi
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Pakistan denies presence of Interpol-wanted Indian gangster in Karachi
- Dawood Ibrahim is wanted for leading an organized crime syndicate and ordering a series of bomb explosions that took place in Mumbai in 1993
- Indian media reported that Pakistan had admitted Ibrahim’s presence on its soil after a statutory notification mentioned his three addresses in Karachi
Ex-PM Imran Khan lawyers move Pakistan court for his release on medical grounds
- Khan was sentenced to 17 years in prison in a case involving illegal retention of state gifts he received as PM
- The development comes as an opposition protest seeking Khan’s transfer to a private hospital enters the second day
ISLAMABAD: Lawyers of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan have moved a Pakistani high court to suspend his 17-year prison term in a graft case and release the ex-premier on grounds of his deteriorating health, Khan’s party said on Saturday.
The development follows a rare prison visit earlier this week by Barrister Salman Safdar, appointed as amicus curiae by the Supreme Court, to assess Khan’s health and living conditions at Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail. In his report, Safdar stated the ex-premier had suffered a significant loss of sight in his right eye.
The report sparked a protest by an alliance of opposition parties, the Tehreek-e-Tahafuz-e-Ayeen-e-Pakistan (TTAP), which also includes members of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, at Parliament House in Islamabad, with the protesters demanding Khan’s transfer from Adiala Jail to Al-Shifa Hospital for treatment.
The petition filed by Khan’s lawyers in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeks suspension of a Dec. 20, 2025 judgment by a special court involving illegal retention of state gifts, arguing that “continued incarceration of the Petitioner during pendency of the Appeal would result in grave miscarriage of justice.”
“The filing argues that the judgment is under substantive legal challenge and requests that the appellate court suspend the sentence until the appeal is decided, a remedy available under Pakistani law when serious questions are raised about the conviction,” Khan’s PTI party said in a statement on Saturday.
According to the petition filed by Barrister Safdar, a specialist at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) diagnosed “severe damage to the Petitioner’s right eye caused by a blood clot, leaving him with only fifteen percent (15 percent) vision in the affected eye.”
“[This] medical complication is of such gravity and seriousness that the same cannot be treated inside the jail premises,” the petition read.
The development came as the opposition sit-in at parliament entered its second day on Saturday. Local media reported the Khan supporters had also blocked the Hazara motorway in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, ruled by his PTI party.
“This sit-in will continue until Imran Khan is transferred to Al-Shifa Hospital,” the opposition alliance said on X.
Khan, 73, has been in custody since August 2023. This petition seeks to suspend his December conviction on charges of “criminal breach of trust” and corruption related to a jewelry set. He was sentenced to 10 years for criminal breach of trust and seven years under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The petition represents the latest chapter in a long-running legal battle for the former cricket star-turned-politician. Since his removal from office in 2022, Khan has faced a barrage of cases.
His legal team argues the “present prosecution constitutes yet another continuation of this pattern” of “unprecedented political victimization.” The government says the courts are free to decide on legal matters.
On Friday, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Tariq Fazal Chaudhry said there would be no negligence with regard to Khan’s treatment.
“Medical report will be compiled again, the chief justice of the Supreme Court is himself monitoring this case,” he said.
“Wherever it will be requested, Imran Khan’s eye will be examined at.”
