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By India Today News Desk: Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari blamed “frozen peace” between India and Pakistan on India’s policy in Kashmir, refusing to acknowledge whether handing over underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, living in Karachi, would break the tension.
In an exclusive interview to India Today TV’s Consultant Editor Rajdeep Sardesai, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was asked how can India trust Pakistan to act on terror when Dawood Ibrahim is believed to be living in Clifton, Karachi.
“The frozen peace is a result of the action of August 5, 2019 when India unilaterally violated international law, UN resolutions and bilateral agreements between India and Pakistan,” Bilawal Bhutto said on whether handing over Dawood to India would act as a gesture to break the frozen peace.
Based in Karachi and wanted for multiple terror activities in India, including the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, Dawood Ibrahim already has a bounty of $25 million on his head announced by the United Nations Security Council in 2003.
He is among India’s most wanted men, along with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief Hafiz Saeed, Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Maulana Masood Azhar, Hizbul Mujahideen founder Syed Salahuddin and his close aide Abdul Rauf Asghar.
The ties between India and Pakistan came under severe strain after India in August 2019 announced the withdrawal of special powers of Jammu and Kashmir and the bifurcation of the state into the two union territories. India has been maintaining that it desires normal neighbourly relations with Pakistan while insisting that the onus is on Islamabad to create an environment free of terror and hostility for such an engagement.
“If we are to have any engagement, if we are to have any dialogue, presumably that will lead to some sort of documentation or written agreement,” Bhutto, who is in Goa to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting, told India Today.
“No trust Pakistan has in India’s committment to bilateral and multilateral agreements,” he added.
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