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Two Pakhtun men were used by the channel whose “names were withheld for safety reasons” to identify Dawood's Karachi-based residence
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India's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim has been tracked down at his Pakistan-based location, claims news channel CNN-NEWS18.
“CNN-NEWS18 has secured clinching video evidence of Dawood Ibrahim's presence in Pakistan, a claim denied by Islamabad for 23 long years,” said CNN-NEWS18 in a statement on Wednesday.
Two Pakhtun men were used by the channel whose “names were withheld for safety reasons” to identify Dawood's Karachi-based residence with address bungalow No D-13 Block 4 Clifton.
The channel claimed to have checked all five addresses of Dawood mentioned in India's dossier to Pakistan, “Only one of the addresses in Karachi, D-13, Block 4, Clifton, was in a high security zone,” it said.
“Starting at Clifton Marquee, a banquet hall named after the affluent Karachi locality where Dawood lives, the CNN-News18 team stopped every 100 metres, asking about Dawood Ibrahim's house. All those asked pointed to the same address D-13 Block 4 Clifton,” the channel said in the statement.
“They (two Pakhtun men) made four rounds separately from different directions and spotted the house of Dawood Ibrahim. During the third round of recce, they checked about Dawood Ibrahim from a streetside stall,” the statement added.
“CNN-News18 investigation reveals that Dawood’s presence in Karachi is common knowledge, which contradicts the constant denial by a series of governments in Pakistan of Dawood’s base there,” the channel said.
