NEW DELHI: Home minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Saturday said inputs pointed to underworld don and 1993 Mumbai serial blasts accused Dawood Ibrahim being in Pakistan, and that he had conveyed this both to Pakistan and the US.

While recalling his repeated efforts to get Pakistan to acknowledge Dawood’s presence on its soil and hand him over along with other most-wanted criminals like LeT founder Hafiz Saeed, Shinde said he had taken up the issue during Pakistani interior minister Rehman Malik’s visit here last year as well as on the sidelines of the Interpol meet in Rome.

With Pakistan failing to act on the request, Shinde said he even took up the issue of Saeed and Dawood’s extradition with the US during his visit there earlier this year. He said he had requested US attorney general Eric Holder to work with India to bring the two to justice for crimes committed against India.

Shinde said an Interpol red corner notice had already been issued against Dawood and the US has declared him as a global terrorist.

The home minister said many terrorists were still coming from Pakistan, and the recent arrest of Abdul Karim Tunda was another example how the neighbouring country gives shelter to terrorists.

Asked whether Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would raise the issue of terror with his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif in New York later this month, Shinde said that though it was too early to say that, the practice of the PM meeting heads of India's neghbouring countries on the sidelines of multilateral events was common.

