'He is not on our soil': Pakistan does an about-turn on Dawood Ibrahim

Brushes aside media reports claiming that Islamabad has 'admitted to his presence' as 'baseless and misleading'

A day after admitting that India’s most-wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim is in Pakistan, the Imran Khan government took a U-turn on its own statement.

Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on Sunday refuting the presence of certain listed individuals on its territory.

Dawood was among 88 who figured in a list, published as a Statutory Regulatory Order (SRO) by Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to escape blacklisting by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

A part of the statement issued on Sunday said: “The reports in certain sections of the media about Pakistan imposing new sanctions measures, through these SROs, are