Pakistan said on Monday said that fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim was not in the country and lived "somewhere else".
"He (Dawood) is not in Pakistan. I think he is living somewhere else," Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Naeem Khan told reporters in Islamabad.
India was seeking the deportation of Dawood Ibrahim and 30 other people, who are wanted in the country.
India, Pakistan exchange criminals' lists
At the home secretary-level meeting between the two countries in New Delhi on Monday, India had submitted a list of 30 people to Paksitan, including Dawood, Chhota Shakeel and Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar and United Liberation Front of Asom chief Paresh Barua.
The Pakistani side also handed over names of what it called were persons wanted by it and living in India.
Dawood Ibrahim was a key conspirator in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts and has been declared a global terrorist by the United States.
