Published 10:13 IST, August 24th 2020

Now that Pak has admitted Dawood's there India must extradite & hang him: Ramdas Athawale

Union Minister Ramdas Athawale on Sunday said the Centre should exert pressure on Pakistan govt for the extradition of wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim to India

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Union Minister and Rajya Sabha MP Ramdas Athawale on Sunday said Centre should exert pressure on Pakistan government for extrition of wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim to India. Athawale said that criminals like Ibrahim "deserve to be hanged".

" Indian government should pressurise Pakistan government for handing over of Dawood Ibrahim as he was mastermind behind 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai," Union Minister of State for Social Justice said in a statement. "Until w, Pakistan h never mitted that it has been sheltering him for so many years," he ded

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"I am going to write a letter to Union Ministry of Home Affairs about it. Criminals like Dawood deserve to be hanged," he said.

Pakistan backtracks after massive mission

statement comes after a Pakistan government document revealed that Dawood Ibrahim, among  most wanted in India, is living in Karachi. Islamab has for years denied that it has sheltered Dawood, responsible for 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, along with or terrorists. Dawood Ibrahim is wanted in India to face law of land for carrying out serial blasts in Mumbai in 1993 in which hundreds of people were killed and injured. India has asked Pakistan several times to hand over Dawood Ibrahim.

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document that revealed Dawood's location was related to a list of 88 terrorists that were sanctioned by Pakistan government. His dress on document is White House, Karachi.

However, Pakistan on Sunday backtracked from its stance and said that media reports are 'baseless and misleing'. Issuing a statement, Pakistan's foreign ministry rejected that Dawood is in ir country, despite mentioning his three Karachi dresses in UNSC's list released on August 18.

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Contricting its own mission, Pakistan's foreign ministry said that information in tifications of August 18 is "reproduced as per details in list entry of individuals/entities designated under two sanctions regime, which is publically available and contains names of individuals, who despite ir confirmed deceased status still continue to be on sanctions list."

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Pakistan's Foreign Ministry statement said, " reports in certain sections of media about Pakistan imposing any new sanctions measures, through se tifications, are t factual. Similarly, assertions me by some sections of Indian media, as to Pakistan mitting to presence of certain listed individuals on its territory, based on information contained in tifications, is baseless and misleing."

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(With ncy inputs)

10:13 IST, August 24th 2020