Congress seeks to corner BJP on Dawood's handover issue

The Congress on Sunday sought to corner the government by asking what its response would be if Pakistan refuses to handover underworld don Dawood Ibrahim to India.

"The question is not what India has asked for; the question is this government should tell the country what it would do if Pakistan refuses to handover Dawood Ibrahim," Congress leader Manish Tewari told ANI.

"They have been talking of coercive diplomacy, hot pursuit at some point in time, special operations and generally have conveyed a sense of hawkishness and muscularity. So, therefore.... if the Pakistan government decides not to heed the BJP government what would it then do, that is the question that they need to tell the country," he further said.

After a report appeared in a website Newsmobile.in, giving an insight into the life of Dawood Ibrahim, India reiterated its long standing demand for Dawood's handover.

While Pakistan continues to deny the whereabouts of Dawood, based on months of surveillance mounted on the underworld don Islamabad's lie appears to have been nailed.

The tapes have reportedly been procured from western diplomatic sources and it is being established that Dawood is running his business empire around the globe with impunity.