The United States showed "lack of enthusiasm......

NEW DELHI: The United States showed "lack of enthusiasm" in getting underworld don Dawood Ibrahim deported to India from Pakistan despite making some initial efforts, says senior BJP leader L K Advani.
Advani, in his memoir ' My Country My Life ', notes with deep disappointment America's reticence in pressing Pakistan to hand over Dawood, wanted in connection with 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, to India.
The former Deputy Prime Minister writes in detail his efforts to get Dawood and his meetings with the then US Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice in this regard.
He notes that Indian officials handed over a copy of the list of Top 20 most-wanted terrorists taken refuge in Pakistan to their US counterparts during his visit to that country in January 2002, a month after the Parliament attack.
Advani recollects that within ten days of his meeting with Powell, he came on a whirlwind tour of India and Pakistan in a bid to lower tension and gave "clearer indication" that the Bush administration had decided to ask then President Pervez Musharraf to combat terrorism.
Courtesy:timesofindia.com
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