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<keyword id="6358992" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Delhi-Police">Delhi Police</keyword> has detained <keyword id="232202" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mehmood-Akhtar">Mehmood Akhtar</keyword>, a Pakistani staffer working with Pakistan High Commission, for espionage. 
 As per the reports, Akhtar, 35, is Pakistan envoy <keyword id="135964" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Abdul-Basit">Abdul Basit</keyword>’s staffer and possessed highly classified army-related documents. The intelligence bureau had tailed him for weeks. 
 
The staffer, however, has been released due top diplomatic immunity. 
 
 Pakistani envoy <keyword id="349030" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Basit">Basit</keyword> has been summoned by the external affairs ministry, TV reports said. 
 
A report has been sent the report on the high commission staffer to the external affairs ministry. . Crime branch officials have also briefed the Union Home Minister and Delhi's Lieutenant Governor. 
(image:Indiatimes)

Pakistan High Commission’s staffer detained for espionage, let-off due to diplomatic immunity

Pakistan has questioned the veracity of India's dossiers on <keyword id="26778" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="80" keywordseo="underworld">underworld</keyword> don <keyword id="6357714" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Dawood-Ibrahim">Dawood Ibrahim</keyword> calling them "self-serving" and said government's comments in Parliament on his whereabouts vindicated its sustained stand that the fugitive was not in its territory. 
 <keyword id="106423" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Pakistan-High-Commissioner">Pakistan High Commissioner</keyword> <keyword id="135964" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Abdul-Basit">Abdul Basit</keyword> said the comments by Minister of State for Home Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary in Parliament on Tuesday justified his country's worries on the issue and asserted that India has not placed any request with <keyword id="3002" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Islamabad">Islamabad</keyword> in writing for Dawood's extradition. 
 "Honestly speaking that was quite disquieting and disconcerting from our perspective and frankly that calls for some introspection. If you prepare dossiers on the basis of self-serving information, than we have every reason to be worried. Our worries are justified," he told <keyword id="157927" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Karan-Thapar">Karan Thapar</keyword> on Headlines Today. 
 <keyword id="2840570" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Contradicting-government">Contradicting government</keyword>'s earlier stand on Dawood's whereabouts, Chaudhary had said in Parliament that the government was not aware of the location of the fugitive whose deportation from Pakistan it has been demanding. 
 
Asked whether the Minister's position vindicated Pakistan's stand, he said "It does. He is not in Pakistan." 
 
On whether India either in the recent past or earlier had formally in writing requested extradition of the don, he said, "Not to my knowledge". 
 
 
When pressed further, he said, "Not to my knowledge because from our perspective as we have been saying our position is that he is not in Pakistan. So the question of extradition does not arise in the first instance." 
 
India had handed over to Pakistan several dossiers on Dawood, India's most wanted fugitive, giving details about his locations in Pakistan. 
 
 
The envoy also called Jammu and Kashmir as "mother of all issues" bilaterally and said both the countries should work with sincerity to resolve it. 
 
"First of all, it is important whether it is UN resolutions or Shimla agreement or 1999 Lahore Declaration , you need to understand from our perspective, and I think India also recognises that, Jammu and Kashmir is mother of all our issues bilaterally," he said. 
 
 The <keyword id="44309" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="High-Commissioner">High Commissioner</keyword> said other issues like Siachen, Sir Creek or water issues, terrorism, have their "roots in the Jammu and Kashmir dispute" while asserting that Islamabad wanted to normalise ties with India.

Pakistan does it again. Questions veracity of India's dossiers on Dawood

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Malik Abdul Basit, popularly known as <keyword id="9668051" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="malik-b">Malik B</keyword>., passed away Thursday at the age of 47.</li><li>Basit was a founding member of <keyword id="822136" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="the-roots">The Roots</keyword>, a legendary hip-hop group from <keyword id="36219" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</keyword>.</li><li>"May he be remembered for his devotion to Islam and innovation as one of the most gifted MCs of all time," stated The Roots' Twitter account.</li><li>A cause of death was not released.</li></ul>Malik Abdul Basit, the rapper best known for his work with legendary hip-hop group The Roots, died Thursday at the age of 47.Basit, a Philadelphia native best known as Malik B, appeared on The Roots' first four albums, before leaving the group in 1999. He released two albums as a solo artist."We regretfully inform you of the passing of our beloved brother and long time Roots member Malik Abdul Basit," The Roots <a href="https://twitter.com/theroots/status/1288571089019265025">posted on Twitter</a>. "May he be remembered for his devotion to Islam and innovation as one of the most gifted MCs of all time.""We made a name and carved a lane together," fellow Roots MC Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter posted in <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CDPLu1nFpft/">a tribute on Instagram</a>. "We resurrected a city from the ashes, put it on our backs and called it Illadelph.""The world just lost a real one," he added.Have a <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> tip? Email this reporter: <a href="mailto:cdavis@insider.com">cdavis@insider.com</a>

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Mehjabeen Shaikh, Dawood Ibrahim's wife, inadvertantly let slip to an Indian TV channel that the gangster was indeed living in <keyword id="6587" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="karachi">Karachi</keyword>, peacefully though the Pakistani government had repeatedly denied reports of sheltering him 

	This is the conversation that the Times Now channel played out.
 

	"Am I speaking to Mehjabeen Sheikh?" the reporter asked.
 

	"Yes", the woman confirmed.
 

	"Are you talking from Karachi?"
 

	"Yes".
 

	"Can I speak to Dawood?"
 

	"He's sleeping," Shaikh said before hanging up.
 

	By the time a second reporter called the number, another woman who answered the phone was cautious and asked her to call back later without confirming if it was the residence of Dawood.
 

	Pakistan has repeatedly denied that it has sheltered the underworld don, wanted in India for orchestrating the 1993 bomb blasts that killed 257 people in Mumbai. Even in May this year, Pakistan High Commissioner, Abdul Basit, said the dreaded gangster "was not in Pakistan", when Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh told Parliament that India knew about Dawood's whereabouts.
 

	Times Now reported that according to details of bills available with Indian security agencies, the phone was installed in 2006.
 

	An exclusive report in the Hindustan Times today exposed several discrepancies in the Pakistani narrative.
 

	The HT report, quoting intelligence inputs, stated that Dawood, his wife Mehjabeen Shaikh, son Moeen Nawaz and daughters Mahrukh, Mehreen and Mazia are living in the upscale Clifton neighborhood of Pakistan's Karachi. Dawood's daughter Mahrukh is married to Junaid, son of former Pakistan cricket captain Javed Miandad.
 

	Indian intelligence agencies have an April 2015 telephone bill in the name of Dawood's wife Mehjabeen with D-13, Block-4, Karachi Development Authority, Sch-5, Clifton, as the address, according to the report. Dawood has three Pakistani passports and two more residential addresses in Karachi.
 

	Dawood's family members have travelled to Dubai in January this year. According to the image that HT published of Dawood's Pakistani passport photo, the 59-year-old crime syndicate chief is now cleanshaven, has a receding hairline and has not had plastic surgery done on his face.
 

	Sleuths also have his passport numbers, flight and passenger details.
 

	"Pakistan's Dawood lie is also nailed from the fact that the mafia don's close associates like Jabir Saddiq, Jawaid Chotani and Mumbai blasts accused Javed Patel a.k.a Chikna are also based in Pakistan and are frequent visitors to Dubai. There are flight details to show that Saddiq travelled to Dubai from Karachi on July 20, 2015 and returned four days later," Shishir Gupta wrote in the report for HT.
 Now, if they meet on Monday, Indian <keyword id="43858" type="POSITION" weightage="100" keywordseo="National-Security-Advisor">National Security Advisor</keyword> <keyword id="115253" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Ajit-Doval">Ajit Doval</keyword> will confront his counterpart <keyword id="1679706" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Sartaj-Aziz">Sartaj Aziz</keyword> with the documentary evidence, the report said. 
	 
	(Image credits: Indiatimes)

Dawood
Ibrahim’s wife let slip the secret of the world’s most wanted terrorist’s
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After the new government took over the reins in New <keyword id="66" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Delhi">Delhi</keyword>, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited the leaders of SAARC countries including <keyword id="3001" type="COUNTRY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Pakistan">Pakistan</keyword> to his swearing-in ceremony. This act was more of a symbolic gesture to send a message to the world at large that the new government in Delhi is looking to prioritise its relationship with its immediate neighbours that have been anything but rosy in the recent past. Political pundits had their own take on this with many dubbing it as some sort of ‘diplomatic-coup’ from the new PM’s side. 
 
Be that as it may, one thing is indisputably true: India can not become a major player on the world stage unless and until it plays a more significant role in its own backyard (read: South Asia) commensurate with its power, both economically and militarily. This part of the world is one of the least developed areas on the planet where all types of elements inimical to a standard quality of life are prevalent: chronic poverty, large-scale unemployment, high illiteracy levels, religious bigotry, scourge of extremism et al. It is against this backdrop that India has to tread the path to economic and social prosperity. But in doing so, it would have to play a much bigger role in the region than it currently does. For all of this to happen, India must be seen as a willing partner by its neighbors that commands trust and co-operation of its smaller counterparts. And, that can come only through dialogue and engagements at different levels. 
 To the credit of the new government, since it has come to the office, it has undertaken substantive steps in strengthening its relationships with its immediate neighbors starting with the premier Narendra Modi’s visits to Bhutan and Nepal and other high-level talks with other countries at different levels. Probably, the most awaited diplomatic manoeuvre that was to come—a foreign-secretary level dialogue between India and Pakistan in Islamabad scheduled for August 25 this year. This arrangement was agreed upon by <keyword id="2257489" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="PM-Narendra-Modi">PM Narendra Modi</keyword> and his Pakistani counterpart <keyword id="6576" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Nawaz-Sharif">Nawaz Sharif</keyword> in May in a bid to break the stalemate in the bilateral dialogue process. 
 
As luck would have it, the proposed dialogue was cancelled over a meeting by Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit with Kashmiri separatist leaders ‘for consultations’ ahead of the talks. India said it had expressed its displeasure in ‘clear and unambiguous terms’ to the envoy even before he was to meet the separatist leaders. The envoy went ahead and chose to ignore the warnings from New Delhi. Taking strong objection over the issue, the Indian government called-off the proposed dialogue between foreign secretaries of the two countries in Islamabad. 
 
Now that incident can be broadly looked upon from two perspectives. One is India’s tough message to Pakistan that its meddling with India’s internal affairs is unacceptable and unwarranted for, and the other message that goes out is that both the countries are not sincere enough in their approach toward normalizing their strained relations with each other. 
On a closer look, however, at the internal political crisis in Pakistan together with repeated ceasefire violations by Pakistani border forces in days leading up to the talks, and even more stepped-up firing and shelling from across the border following the cancellation of the talks, seem to suggest that India did the right thing, albeit in disguise some would say. It can be safely assumed that nothing substantive could have come out of the talks given that Pakistani PM is himself preoccupied with saving his own seat and government from unyielding protesters being led by cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan and his ally, cleric Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri. They vociferously demand that the PM resigns and fresh elections be held and nothing less over alleged rigging in the General Elections that took place in 2013 in which his party swept to power on the national scene. 
 
Whatever, firing and talks cannot co-exist and no self-respecting government would allow that. For a lasting peace, Pakistan would have to completely dispense with its malicious designs against Indian state. Then only we can have a peaceful resolution to Kashmir issue: a flashpoint of many wars between the two countries both overt and covert and various other things. For now it all seems utopian. Talks are only a step in that direction. One can only hope that both the countries come together to the talking-table in a true spirit of bilateral engagement as early as possible.

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