Even as the deadlock continues over the National Security Advisor (NSA)-level talks between India and Pakistan, New Delhi is preparing a damning dossier to nail Islamabad's denial over the use of the country's geographical territory in terror activities against India.

Sources have told India Today, that India will be releasing the latest photographs of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim on Saturday, August 22, just ahead of Pakistan NSA Sartaj Aziz's arrival in Delhi.

While Pakistan has been denying presence of Dawood on its soil, India has maintained that the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts mastermind has his base in Karachi's posh Clifton area.

The dossier on Dawood and his reported dens has been made on the basis of intelligence inputs that say there are four new safe havens in Pakistan, including two each in Islamabad and Karachi. Three years ago, New Delhi had tracked three locations of Dawood and the same was communicated to Islamabad. But all the efforts to repatriate him went in vain.

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NSA Ajit Doval is likely to press for handing over of Dawood, expeditious and comprehensive trial of 26/11 case to ensure that LeT founder Hafiz Saeed and outfit's operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi could be punished, sources said.

Notably, India's decision to release Dawood's latest pictures comes less than a week after PM Modi's 2-day visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). During the tour, India reportedly urged the Arab nation to seize properties belonging to Dawood Ibrahim.

Doval, who accompanied the PM on the tour, reportedly handed over a confidential list of Dawood's properties in UAE to the authorities. Doval's dossier on Dawood also included all the latest information available with India about him.

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India also asked UAE to seize all benaami and other properties registered in the name of Dawood. Indian agencies also provided a list of Dawood's shares in many companies and details about his hotel business across UAE.



India-Pak NSA talks in jeopardy

Meanwhile, after a day of intense back and forth between India and Pakistan over holding the NSA-level talks overshadowed by whether Islamabad has the right to engage Kashmiri separatists, India on Friday evening said it is not possible to hold talks in the given circumstances.

Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Vikas Swarup attacked Pakistan for imposing new conditions for the talks. "The distortion of agreed agenda cannot be a basis for going forward, Pakistan cannot impose new conditions for talks," he said, adding there are only two stakeholders in Kashmir, not three, effectively ruling out the participation of the Hurriyat leaders before any bilateral meeting.

Moments later after Swarup's press conference, Home Minister Rajnath Singh also made it clear that terrorism will be the prime agenda if any dialogue between India and Pakistan takes place.

"We are firm on our stand that whatever talks are held with Pakistan should only be on terrorism," Rajnath Singh told reporters. "We stick to commitment between Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif in Ufa to engage in a substantive discussion on terrorism," he added.

