Even as a CNN News18 sting operation has revealed that India's most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim is living a lavish life in Pakistan's Karachi, former Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) joint director Neeraj Kumar said confronting Pakistan would as always fall on deaf ears.
While lauding the Dawood sting, Kumar pointed out that India should aim to exert international pressure on Pakistan, especially from the United States of America. He added that unlike US Navy Seals operation to eliminate Osama bin Laden, India cannot undertake a similar route to bring back Dawood.
"Two aspects -- one is that the news channel able to track down Dawood and collect visual evidence which everyone should appreciate. It is common knowledge that Dawood lives in Karachi. Other is, we have all along known where Dawood lives. After Yakub Memon's arrest, he had produced visual evidence of the house of Dawood Ibrahim which was submitted before the court. There was a photograph of his house which was published in a news magazine. We have known all along where Dawood lives. There are other hideouts of Dawood and Tiger Memon which are very well known to us," said Kumar.
"We know about the Lashkar headquarters, where Lashkar training camps are, where the other hotbeds of terror training are located. But when those across the border are not prepared to accept it, not prepared to accept any kind of evidence that you produce, what do you do," he added.
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He also cautioned that Pakistan will deny that Dawood is in Karachi and the underworld don will never surrender to Indian agencies voluntarily.
"For instance, we have taken help from the US in the past. The bottom-line is very clear that all these years, Pakistan has protected and encouraged all such elements who work against India. It should be submitted like other evidences in the past but it will cut no eyes. We are not a huge military power like the US so any such adventures will lead to war. I am not diplomat, I am not political leader, I don't think that is an option before us," added the former police officer.
To the left of Dawood's bungalow is a beautiful cricket stadium - the National Bank of Pakistan Sports Complex - which is used to play first class games and is the home ground of the NBP and Karachi provincial cricket teams.
To the right, is the mazar of Abdullah Shah Ghazi, an 8th century Sufi saint who lived and died in Karachi.
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