Karim lala bio biography
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Karim lala bio biography
Karim Lala
Indian mobster (1911–2002)
Karim Lala (1911 – 19 February 2002), born Abdul Karim Sher Khan in the Samalam Village of the Shegal District of Kunar Province, Afghanistan, was infamous as one of the three "mafia dons of Mumbai" in India for more than two decades from the sixties to the early eighties,[1] the other two being Mastan Mirza aka Haji Mastan and Varadarajan Mudaliar.[2][3]
Background
Karim Lala was an Afghan muslim who emigrated from Kunar, Afghanistan to Mumbai (then Bombay) in the 1920s.
His family settled in one of the most densely populated and impoverished Muslim communities of Bhendi Bazaar in South Mumbai. Starting as an ordinary worker in the Mumbai docks, he later joined a gang of ethnic Pashtuns (called Pathans in India) who worked as illegal recovery agents for Marwari and Gujarati money lenders, landlords, and businessmen.
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