Dawood Ibrahim and his D-company still control a lot of criminal activities in Mumbai, including smuggling of drugs, arms, counterfeiting etc., cited the 10th edition of the Global Terrorism Index (GTI). The report also states that the criminal organization has strong links with global terrorist groups including Al-Qaeda.
How big a threat is D-company to India?
The report highlights D-Company’s transformation into a terrorist organization, which coincides with its entry into the counterfeit business. The criminal organization led by fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim now controls a large part of the black market for counterfeit cultural products in Mumbai. It also pointed out that the D-Company derives its profits from drug, arms and precious metals smuggling, prostitution, counterfeiting and extortion.
The report states, “In the early 1990s, D-Company decided to infiltrate the Indian film industry.”
It then rapidly developed links with al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups in Kashmir. “Its involvement in the 1993 Mumbai attacks, in which 257 people were killed, is widely accepted,” said the report, which used data including from TerrorismTracker, which provides incident records on terrorist attacks since January 2007. provides.
It is pertinent to mention here that Dawood Ibrahim is currently based out of Pakistan. Multiple reports state that he currently resides in Karachi with his family.
Which are the deadliest terrorist groups in India?
The report listed India among the 25 worst terrorism-affected countries with a high impact of terrorism and was placed at the 13th position. However, it also notes that 56 out of 120 countries surveyed had no answer to choose war and terror as the biggest threats to their daily security.
There are many low-level conflicts in some of India’s border areas, but most of the country’s population lives outside these areas. India, which topped the index, had a GTI score of 7.175, compared to Afghanistan’s 8.822.
The report also suggests that respondents in India may be apathetic to violence in their country, especially younger respondents who grew up with constant unrest. On average, 12% of South Asian respondents rated war and terrorism as their top concern for their daily security, the highest among all regions. The report lists the Communist Party of India (Maoist) as the 12th deadliest terrorist group in the Arabian Peninsula in 2022, ahead of Al-Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Afghanistan remained the country most affected by terrorism for the fourth year in a row, despite a 75% and 58% decline in attacks and deaths, respectively. Pakistan remained among the 10 countries most affected by terrorism in 2022, with the number of deaths rising to 643, a 120% increase from the previous year.
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