islamabad pakistan on saturday said fugitive underworld don dawood ibrahim is not present in the country a day after india asserted that its most wanted terrorist was living in the neighbouring country we have repeatedly informed indian authorities that dawood ibrahim is not in pakistan pakistan foreign office spokesperson tasnim aslam said asked if dawood was ever present in pakistan she said this issue has been raised in the past too we have checked and have said he is not present here addressing a press conference in new delhi home minister sushil kumar shinde had said as per our information dawood is in pakistan when i went to america last year to discuss inland security i met the attorney general who looks after the fbi i talked to him and we decided that we will pass whatever information we have on dawood amongst each other we decided we will make joint efforts shinde had said when asked about the whereabouts of dawood who is wanted in a number of cases by indian security agencies including the 1993 mumbai blasts dawood who heads a vast and multifaceted illegal business has emerged as indias most wanted terrorist after the 1993 mumbai bombings which he allegedly organised and financed an interpol red corner notice is still pending against him according to the us dawood maintains close links with terror outfit alqaida as a result the us declared him a global terrorist and pursued the matter before the united nations in an attempt to freeze his assets across the world and crack down on his operations during the past two years security agencies successfully brought back several wanted terrorists including sayed zabiuddin ansari alias abu jundal the key plotter of mumbai attack terrorists fasih mahmood aka fasih mohammed abdul karim tunda and yasin bhatkal