Dawood's youngest brother dies of cancer

Mumbai: Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s youngest brother Humayun Kaskar died in Pakistan’s Karachi on Thursday, a development seen to be a blow to the Kaskar family. Suffering from lung cancer and a kidney ailment, he had been hospitalised for a long time.Sources close to the family said Humayun, survived by wife and two children, was buried at Abdullah Shah Ghazi Dargah in Karachi’s Clifton on Friday morning as several big establishments run by the Dawood brothers in Dubai and Karachi shut.Humayun and Mustaqium were the only siblings in the family without any offence registered against them in India. Sources said that Dawood left enough for them to run legitimate businesses in Dubai and Karachi. Both owned malls and showrooms there.Mumbai crime branch sources said that after Humayun was detected with lung cancer in 2007, he had decided to return to India along with his elder brother, Mustaqium, for treatment. But Dawood and other family members advised them against it, and they preferred treatment from doctors in Karachi.“Citing Iqbal Kaskar’s case, they prevented the brothers from returning. Iqbal, who was deported to India in 2003, had to face a legal battle for six years to get himself cleared,” a senior police official said. “He used to smoke, take drugs such as opium and cocaine, and drink heavily,” said a close family member.