Running a criminal syndicate of 5,000 members with strategic alliance with the ISI, LeT and Al-Qaeda, the Karachi-headquartered D-Company is an example of criminal-terrorism fusion model and poses a threat to the US security interests in South Asia, a Congressional report said.

"Dawood Ibrahim's D-Company, a 5,000-member criminal syndicate operating mostly in Pakistan, India, and the United Arab Emirates, provides an example of the criminal-terrorism fusion model," the Congressional Research Service (CRS) said in its latest report.