So, is Dawood in Pakistan?

Pakistan has always claimed that Dawood Ibrahim, the mastermind behind 1993 Bombay blasts, was not in Pakistan. CBI presented Pakistan with enough evidences to prove that he lived in Pakistan, but Pakistan never accepted the "fact" that Dawood was in Pakistan.

On 7th July, Times of India reported that CBI supplied enough proof to Interpol about his presence in Pakistan - Interpol is the International Criminal Police Organization:

"We have given complete proof about his entire network in Pakistan to Interpol and Interpol believes us," CBI chief Vijay Shanker told reporters after his 30-minute meeting with home minister Shivraj Patil on the matter.

In a very interesting reply by Pakistan's Foreign Ministry, Pakistan rejected India's demand for deportation of Dawood Ibrahim, as CNN-IBN reports:

Rejecting India's demand for deportation of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and Hizbul Muhajideen chief Syed Salahuddin, Pakistan on Friday claimed there was no evidence to link the two with the Mumbai bomb blasts.

Well, leaving the deportation matter for now, Pakistan is rejecting to deport Dawood, meaning that they acknowledge the fact that Dawood is in Pakistan. Now Pakistan is not deporting it, which means that Pakistan is not helping USA in its "war against terrorism", after all he was declared as a Global Terrorist by the United States Government. [Wiki link]

Now, deportation... Pakistan claims that there is no evidence to link Dawood Ibrahim with the recent Mumbai bomb blasts :

A strongly-worded statement by Pakistan Foreign Ministry said the fact that after 10 days of the blasts India had little to say other than mention Dawood and Salahuddin "demonstrates that there was nothing to warrant the irresponsible act of finger-pointing at Pakistan immediately after the Mumbai attack."

Maybe not responsible for 7/11, but wait, hasn't evidence shown that he is responsible for the 1993 bombings? So why is Pakistan trying to secure Dawood Ibrahim? Is it because (as The Tribune claims) ISI gets $1 billion a year from Dawood Ibrahim - 1 billion dollars - that's a whopping 4600 crores a year! Think of companies like Infosys, with revenues about 10-11,000 crores a year!

So is Pakistan doing anything about terrorism? USA is selling Pakistan a new batch of F-16 (multi role aircrafts) that they think Pakistan will use to help the USA in their "war against terror". But many US lawmakers also think that this will be used against India, not Al-Qaeda:

The new batch of F-16 multi-role aircraft that the US proposes to sell Pakistan will be used against India, not Al-Qaeda, many US lawmakers have said while accusing the Bush Administration of "rushing through" the deal.

"This material is not being used against Al-Qaeda. It isn't. The potential is that it would be used in a war against India," Democratic Representative Frank Pallone, a strong supporter of India, said of the jets.

No arguments there... What are Pak intentions anyways? Do they want to help India and USA find terrorist and crack terrorists or not? And if they do, then why are they helping Dawood Ibrahim?