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Benazir’s promise on Dawood issue
New Delhi: As she prepares to return home, the former Pakistan Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, has promised to consider the extradition of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim to India if she was elected to power.
Observing that the militants “nurtured” by Pakistan during the Afghan war had returned to “haunt,” she underlined that she did not want her country to be known for harbouring criminals from across the world.
“Look into request”“We will certainly look into the request by the Indian government,” she told Karan Thapar’s ‘India Tonight’ programme on CNN-IBN when asked whether she would grant Dawood’s extradition if she was elected to power.
“If he is living in Karachi, it is very wrong... I do not want Pakistan to get a bad name and be seen as a country that harbours criminals from all parts of the world, including India,” said the self-exiled Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader, who will announce on Friday the date of her return.
Though India has provided his location to Pakistan, the latter has been claiming that Dawood is not in its country. — PTI
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