Tuesday, August 30 2005 14:34 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Islamabad: As India sought the deportation of Dawood Ibrahim and 30 other wanted people, Pakistan today said the underworld don was not in the country and lived "somewhere else".

"....He (Dawood) is not in Pakistan. I think he is living somewhere else," Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Naeem Khan told reporters here.

At the Home Secretary-level meeting between the two countries in New Delhi today, India submitted a list of 30 people, including underworld dons Dawood Ibrahim, Chhota Shakeel and Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar and ULFA chief Paresh Barua to Pakistan, seeking their deportation. The Pakistani side also handed over names of what it called were persons wanted by it and living in India.

Dawood Ibrahim is a key conspirator in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts and has been declared a global terrorist by the United States. Among other names in the Indian list are those of Tiger Memon and Rawalpindi-based Hizbul Mujahideen supremo Syed Salauddin.