- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Social media was abuzz on December 18 over reports of Dawood Ibrahim getting poisoned in Karachi, Pakistan.
By: Shubham Ghosh
FORMER Pakistan cricket captain Javed Miandad has dismissed reports about his house arrest and refused to share any information about Dawood Ibrahim, one of India’s most wanted terrorists and the former’s kin, after it was reported that he was poisoned by some unknown people in Karachi, Pakistan, and was rushed to a hospital.
Speaking to India’s ABP News, the 66-year-old Miandad said the news about his house arrest was wrong and that he would not make any comment about Dawood. He said it was up to the government of Pakistan to issue a statement.
The 67-year-old Dawood, who is wanted in the 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai in which more than 250 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured, made the headlines on Monday (18) over reports of his poisoning. Sources said he was hospitalised under tight security. Reports added that Dawood was the only occupant on the hospital floor where he was kept and only his close relatives and top officials of the hospital had access there, ABP Live added.
Some reports even claimed that Dawood passed away while others said he was doing fine. While several media reports have claimed that Dawood lives in Pakistan, Islamabad has dismissed it repeatedly.
It is not the first time that reports about Dawood’s death have set the internet on fire. In the past, there have been reports of the gangster dying of heart attack or even Covid-19 but none of them were confirmed.
Dawood’s daughter Mahrukh got married to Miandad’s son Junaid in a luxurious hotel in Dubai, UAE, in July 2005.
