Karim Lala
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, the other two being Haji Mastan and Varadarajan Mudaliar. == Background == Karim Lala was an Afghan Pashtun who emigrated from Kunar, Afghanistan to Mumbai (then Bombay) in the 1920s.