Dawood Ibrahim, the founder and leader of D-Company, went into hiding following the 1993 Bombay bombings, that he coordinated, to avoid capture by India for his role in it. He has been on the The World's 10 Most Wanted list since 2010, and third in the list, and is designated a "global terrorist".
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Many attempts have been made to locate Ibrahim by the Indian intelligence agencies, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Intelligence Bureau (IB), ever since he went into hiding. His location has been frequently traced to Karachi, Pakistan, a claim which the Pakistani authorities have frequently denied. The claims were further established in August 2015, when a phone call made to his home by an Indian television channel, Times Now, was answered by his wife, who confirmed his presence at their home in Karachi. The Indian intelligence agencies immediately prepared a dossier of Ibrahim which included evidences of his location in Karachi, among others. It was to be presented at the National Security Agency-level talks between the two countries in the same month, which was however, called off due to political reasons.
1996
In an interview with India Today, Chhota Rajan, a former aide of Ibrahim, who he later fell out with in 1992, said that, "He [Ibrahim] does travel out of Pakistan once in a while but Karachi is his base."
2000
Ghulam Hasnain, a Pakistani journalist, who researched extensively about Ibrahim's living in Karachi, confirmed it, and in his piece for an Indian magazine Outlook, wrote of the latter living in his "palatial house" in a 6,000 square yard plot in Clifton, an upmarket area in Karachi. He added that Ibrahim was the Pakistani intelligence service Inter-Services Intelligence's "main source of information from India and helps in espionage operations" in return for their protection.