S Ahmed Ali | TNN
Mumbai: All the talk about a surgical strike in the aftermath of the Abbottabad raid seems to have rattled India’s most-wanted fugitive, Dawood Ibrahim. The man who planned India’s first major terror carnage in Mumbai in March 1993 has been forced to shift the venue of his son Moin’s wedding, according to officials who track him.
Everything was working to clockwork precision for the wedding scheduled for May 28. But ‘Operation Geronimo’ created such panic that the D-company boss, who lives in Karachi, may shift the wedding to Dubai and keeping celebrations as low-key as possible, according to Indian intelligence officers. They say that the man, now on the most-wanted terror list, has also moved out of his palatial bungalow in Karachi’s upscale Clifton neighbourhood that his family has called home for years.
Moin is to get married on May 28 to a Pakistan-born Canadian garment businessman’s daughter. The date was fixed two months ago but no one factored in the international gaze on terrorists holed up in Pakistan following the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
Indian agencies have learnt that Dawood has told his close aides that he wanted the last of his children’s weddings to be a grand affair.
Indian intelligence officials have also gathered that he was shifting the venue on advice of the ISI. “Pakistan has been caught with its pants down in the bin Laden affair and a high-profile wedding in the family of a notorious terror agent, who is a fugitive from his own country, is the last thing that Pakistan and its intelligence and military establishments want now,’’ said a senior intelligence officer. “Arranging a wedding and hosting guests in Dubai is not a difficult job for Dawood who enjoys a great equation with the Dubai government,’’ a close friend of Dawood, who was deported recently, told officials here.
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