Sunday, May 6, 2007

Indo-Pak peace while chewing tobacco



May 5, 2007 posted by indiatime




New allegations are coming to light on the business connections of some of India’s richest business tycoons to Dawood Ibrahim’s organization. India’s first Maybach owner and the Gutkha King Rasiklal Dhariwal, and his one-time partner Jagdish Joshi are once again in the limelight, and are now said to be targets of a joint investigation by the Scotland Yard and the CBI.
Previously, both Dhariwal and Joshi, the so-called Gutkha (chewing tobacco) kings of India, were implicated in helping India’s most wanted Dunai-based crime don Dawood, to set up shop in Pakistan. More information is now about to come out as both Dhariwal and Joshi are at each other’s throats, and probably about to spill a lot more tobacco.


Dhariwal’s daughter Janhavi, who got India’s first Maybach as a 21st birthday present from her Gutkha tycoon dad is also being investigated for business irregularities.


The gutkha kings’ tobacco adventure is one of the first Indo-Pak joint business ventures. And with financiers like Dawood Ibrahim backing up the collaboration, there is no shortage of funds. With tobacco connoisseurs on both sides of the border willing to sacrifice and bet their health, the chewing tobacco may be the glue that finally brings the subcontinent together.


The armies on both sides can now safely tuck away their guns, bombs and missiles, and open up their tobacco satchels. India and Pakistan, once blood brothers, will now become spit-brothers, thanks to Dawood and his friends in Pakistan, and the Maybach-driving tobacco barons of India.



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