Our Correspondent /
Government of India today denied that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had met Underworld don and Mumbai blasts accused Dawood Ibrahim during his recent visit to Lahore.
“There are reports in section of Press that the prime accused of Serial Mumbai blasts Dawood Ibrahim was also present during Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s meeting with the Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Lahore on 25th December 2015. These statements are baseless, unfounded and totally false” Press Information Bureau, PIB, of Government of India said in a statement today.
It may be recalled that senior Uttar Pradesh minister Mohd Azam Khan today alleged that that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had met underworld don Dawood Ibrahim in Lahore at the residence of Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif.
“Prime Minister visited Pakistan by breaking international laws. He also met Dawood there. Let him (Modi) deny. I will give evidence. Who all did he meet behind closed doors?” Khan said.
He said besides Sharif, his mother, his wife and daughters, Dawood Ibrahim was also present when Modi met them at the Pakistan Prime Minister’s residence when he went there on December 25.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Lahore on December 25 last year for a meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif. It was the first visit to Pakistan by an Indian premier in more than 10 years. Modi was received by Sharif with a warm hug at the tarmac of Allama Iqbal International Airport after his unexpected stopover here on his way back home after a day-long trip to Afghanistan where he went after concluding a two-day visit to Russia.
PM Modi met Dawood Ibrahim in Lahore: Azam Khan