WASHINGTON, Jan 10: India’s Home Minister L.K. Advani listed the 20 most-wanted men his country wants Pakistan to hand over to New Delhi.

They are as follows:

1. Maulana Azhar Masood, leader of Jaish-i-Mohammad, blamed for the attack on India’s parliament. He is also wanted for an attack on the occupied Kashmir legislature on Oct 1, in which 38 people were killed.

2. Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, co-founder of Lashkar-i-Taiba, also blamed for the attack on parliament in New Delhi. India says he operates from Muridke town, near Lahore.

3. Dawood Ibrahim, an Indian underworld don, accused of planning and financing 13 explosions in Mumbai in 1993 in which almost 300 people died.

Ibrahim is wanted in connection with cases of arms supply, counterfeiting, drugs trade, funding alleged criminals, murder and smuggling. India says he lives in Karachi.

4. Chhota Shakeel, a key associate of Ibrahim. Wanted for murder, extortion, kidnapping, blackmail of businessmen and film stars. India also alleges he is a top spy for the ISI, living in Karachi.

5. “Tiger” Ibrahim Memon, accused of executing the 1993 Mumbai blasts. He is wanted in cases of murder, extortion, kidnapping, terrorism and smuggling arms and explosives.

Memon, another key associate of Ibrahim, lives in Karachi and travels frequently to Dubai, according to the Indian list.

6. Ayub Memon, accused of executing the 1993 Mumbai blasts. He is alleged to have helped his brother Ibrahim Memon carry out the blasts. He is wanted in cases of terrorism and smuggling. India says he lives in Karachi.

7. Abdul Razzak, accused of involvement in the Mumbai blasts. He is wanted in cases of terrorism and arms smuggling. India says he lives in Karachi.

8. Syed Salahuddin, head of Hizbul Mujahideen, which has claimed responsibility for dozens of attacks on Indian forces in held Kashmir. India says he lives in Muzaffarabad.

9. Ibrahim Athar, an associate of Maulana Azhar Masood and alleged to be one of the hijackers of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 from Kathmandu to Delhi in 1999. He is a member of Jaish-i-Mohammad and is wanted for hijacking, kidnapping and murder. India says he lives in Bahawalpur.

10. Zahoor Ibrahim Mistri, a member of Harkat-ul-Ansar, which later changed its name to Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. He is wanted in connection with the hijacking of IC-814 and in cases of kidnapping and murder.

The Indian list says Mistri lives in Karachi.

11. Shahid Akhtar Sayed, is wanted for the IC-814 hijacking and for kidnapping and murder. According to New Delhi, he lives in Karachi.

12. Azhar Yusuf, wanted in the IC-814 hijacking case and in cases of kidnapping and murder. India says he is in Karachi.

13. Abdul Karim, a Kashmiri freedom fighter blamed for more than 30 bomb blasts in Delhi and parts of northern India in 1996-97. India says he is in Lahore.

14. Ishaq Atta Hussain, an associate of Dawood Ibrahim, is wanted in connection with a conspiracy to kill Indian Home Minister L.K. Advani. India says he lives in Karachi.

15. Sagir Sabir Ali Shaikh, an associate of Dawood Ibrahim, is also wanted in connection with the conspiracy to kill Advani. India says he too lives in Karachi.

16. Wadhawan Singh Babbar, chief of Sikh group Babbar Khalsa International, which was involved in an insurgency in East Punjab during the 1980s.

He is wanted in over a dozen cases of sedition, murder and in connection with the assassination of East Punjab’s then chief minister Beant Singh. India says he lives in Lahore.

17. Ranjit Singh Neeta, chief of Khalistan Zindabad Force. He is wanted in cases of murder, bomb blasts and smuggling of arms. The Indian list says he lives in Lahore.

18. Paramjit Singh Panjwar, leader of the Khalistan Commando Force. He is accused of trying to revive the Sikh insurgency in East Punjab and is wanted in more than a dozen cases of murder, treason, conspiracy and arms smuggling.He lives in Lahore, according to the list.

19. Lakhbir Singh Rode, leader of the International Sikh Youth Federation, is wanted in cases of arms smuggling, conspiracy to attack government leaders in Delhi and inciting religious hatred in East Punjab. He lives in Lahore, India says.

20. Gajinder Singh, leader of Sikh group Dal Khalsa, is accused of hijacking an Indian Airlines plane from Srinagar to Delhi in 1981. He was arrested by Pakistan after he hijacked the plane to Lahore and tried. India says he lives in Lahore after his release from prison. —Reuters