India's top terrorist: Pakistan's spy agency protects underworld don Dawood Ibrahim

The Indian police Sunday said that one of the country's top terrorists, Abdul Karim Tunda, who was arrested Friday, has revealed during interrogation that his boss and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim is currently in Pakistan under the protection of its spy agency. Seventy-year-old Tunda, a bomb expert of banned Pakistani terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba, was wanted in India for some 40 terror cases. His boss, Ibrahim, the alleged mastermind behind the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, is still on the run, despite a red corner notice issued by the Interpol. "Tunda has claimed that Ibrahim is being protected by Pakistan' s Inter-Services Intelligence and that the Pakistani Army has deep rooted links with the underworld don. Tunda has also claimed that he met Dawood several times in Karachi," sources in the Delhi Police said. A team of Delhi Police's special cell on Friday nabbed Tunda from the India-Nepal border, after he was deported from one of the Gulf nations. He was wanted in at least 40 terrorism cases, including a number of bomb blasts in and around the national capital, Mumbai and the southern city of Hyderabad, in which over 20 people were killed and 400 others injured. India had demanded from Pakistan his extradition after the 2001 Parliament attacks. In 1996, Interpol had also issued a red corner notice against Tunda who was originally a resident of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad district.