"On 12 March 1993, the city witnessed the gory face of terror for the first time. As many as 13 blasts shook the city on that fateful day. RDX was used in the explosive devices planted to inflict the maximum damage of life and property. It emerged that the underworld don, Dawood Ibrahim, had been behind these blasts. He had apparently shook hands with ISI with the purpose of avenging the Babri Masjid demolition. Dawood Ibrahim managed to leave the country before the serial blasts. There is ample evidence indicating that he runs his empire of crime from Pakistan and that the ISI plays the good host in return for his help in implementing its anti-India conspiracies."