Stepping up pressure on Pakistan, India today came out with a list of 50 “most wanted fugitives” from law here hiding in Pakistan that includes underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, 26/11 mastermind and Laskhar-e-Toiba founder Hafiz Saeed and terrorist Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi.
The list, given to Pakistan during the talks between home secretaries of the two countries in March, has Hafiz Saeed on top, followed by Major Iqbal, suspected to be a serving ISI officer who also figures in the FBI indictment in a Chicago court in connection with the 2008 Mumbai terror attack.
The release of the documents comes two days after the government made public the names of five Pakistanis who had figured in the second chargesheet in the Chicago case, of having taken a leading part in the Mumbai attack conspiracy.
It also comes in the midst of acute discomfort for Pakistan, which has been tying itself in knots over the charge of sheltering Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who was killed in a unilateral action by US special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik yesterday had said Dawood Ibrahim was not living in his country. Today’s list of 50 fugitives also includes Jaish-e- Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar.