Did ISI Personnel Attend Dawood Ibrahim’s Son Wedding in Karachi?

The following report from the Indian press makes some extraordinary claims. It was written by J. Dey, who was gunned-down recently.

India has accessed fresh evidence that proves underworld don and India’s most wanted Dawood Ibrahim continues to live and flourish in Pakistan.

A highly classified intelligence report, prepared by Indian security and intelligence agencies, says a cable of officials from Pakistan’s Army and ISI along with host of his business associates attended the walima (wedding reception) of the underworld don’s son on September 25, which was wrapped under a cloak of secrecy.

Dawood’s son Moin Nawaz tied the knot on September 23 in Karachi. The reception was held at Dawood’s mansion called ‘White House’ inKarachi’s poshClifton area.

 

Prominent among those who attended the event were Col Ashwaq Ahmed, head of commando unit of ISI’s Special Operations Group (SOG), Brig Rashid Husian Shahid of the ISI’s Joint Intelligence Bureau, Col Rehman Rashid and Lt Col Rashidullah Khan from ISI’s External Intelligence Wing, Lt Col Shujaul Pasha, Lt Col Asidur Rehman Kidwai, Major Sadiq Khan (from SOG) and Lt Col Asidur Reham (from the Pakistan Rangers).

The business associates who attended the reception ceremony included Afsar Ali, a key player in Karachi Stock Exchange; his brother Noor Ali (who has floated several front companies for Dawood); Jumed Usmani of A-One Construction, Karachi; Javed Qasim, owner of Key Project Pvt Ltd; hotelier Sheikh Muhammed Khalid; and Rehman Sueliman and Abdur Wahab, who manage a company called Best Deals.

Dawood did not allow any videography or photography of the wedding reception.

A couple of months back photographs of Dawood Ibrahim’s daughters’ marriage surfaced and Zee News was the first to reveal the exclusive photographs.

Mahrukh, the first daughter of Dawood, had tied the knot with Junaid, son of former Pakistani Test cricketer Javed Miandad, way back in July 2005 at a five-star hotel in Dubai. His second daughter, Mehreen had also secretly tied the knot with a Pakistani-American Ayub at Dawood’s palatial bungalow in Tony Clifton area of Karachi in February this year.

All these could add to the piling up evidences of Dawood’s presence in Pakistan.

Dawood is based in Karachi and is reportedly living under ISI’s protection. He is wanted by India for engineering the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts that snuffed out the lives of 300 people.

The Government of India has continually asked Pakistan to extradite Dawood. However, the Pakistan government has repeatedly denied Dawood’s presence in the country.

The Interpol has already issued a red corner notice against the don.

Published by alaiwah

ALAIWAH'S PHILOSOPHY About 12 years ago, while studying Arabic in Cairo, I became friends with some Egyptian students. As we got to know each other better we also became concerned about each other’s way of life. They wanted to save my soul from eternally burning in hell by converting me to Islam. I wanted to save them from wasting their real life for an illusory afterlife by converting them to the secular worldview I grew up with. In one of our discussions they asked me if I was sure that there is no proof for God’s existence. The question took me by surprise. Where I had been intellectually socialized it was taken for granted that there was none. I tried to remember Kant’s critique of the ontological proof for God. “Fine,” Muhammad said, “but what about this table, does its existence depend on a cause?” “Of course,” I answered. “And its cause depends on a further cause?” Muhammad was referring to the metaphysical proof for God’s existence, first formulated by the Muslim philosopher Avicenna. Avicenna argues, things that depend on a cause for their existence must have something that exists through itself as their first cause. And this necessary existent is God. I had a counter-argument to that to which they in turn had a rejoinder. The discussion ended inconclusively. I did not convert to Islam, nor did my Egyptian friends become atheists. But I learned an important lesson from our discussions: that I hadn’t properly thought through some of the most basic convictions underlying my way of life and worldview — from God’s existence to the human good. The challenge of my Egyptian friends forced me to think hard about these issues and defend views that had never been questioned in the milieu where I came from. These discussions gave me first-hand insight into how deeply divided we are on fundamental moral, religious and philosophical questions. While many find these disagreements disheartening, I will argue that they can be a good thing — if we manage to make them fruitful for a culture debate. Can we be sure that our beliefs about the world match how the world actually is and that our subjective preferences match what is objectively in our best interest? If the truth is important to us these are pressing questions. We might value the truth for different reasons: because we want to live a life that is good and doesn’t just appear so; because we take knowing the truth to be an important component of the good life; because we consider living by the truth a moral obligation independent of any consequences; or because we want to come closer to God who is the Truth. Of course we wouldn’t hold our beliefs and values if we weren’t convinced that they are true. But that’s no evidence that they are. Weren’t my Egyptian friends just as convinced of their views as I was of mine? More generally: don’t we find a bewildering diversity of beliefs and values, all held with great conviction, across different times and cultures? If considerations such as these lead you to concede that your present convictions could be false, then you are a fallibilist. And if you are a fallibilist you can see why valuing the truth and valuing a culture of debate are related: because you will want to critically examine your beliefs and values, for which a culture of debate offers an excellent setting.

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