Tushar Gandhi writes to Musharraf

By Our Special Correspondent

MUMBAI, JULY 7. Mr. Tushar Gandhi, a great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, has asked Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who will be in the country for peace talks, to stop ``harbouring'' the underworld don, Dawood Ibrahim, Tiger Memon and their henchmen who perpetrated the bomb blasts in Mumbai in 1993. ``By no stretch of imagination can they be called freedom fighters or jehadis and by no definition could their actions be called Islamic. They are just criminals,'' Mr. Gandhi said in his letter to the President of Pakistan, as the managing trustee of Mahatma Gandhi Foundation.

He said the Pakistan's military and the ISI have been sheltering these persons. ``As long as Pakistan shelters them, how can the common people of India believe that you are sincere in wanting to establish peace with India,'' asked Mr. Gandhi and sought their arrest and deportation.

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