Though said to keep his cool, his colleagues (who always address him as Bhai and Ji Bhai) never question his decisions. But they avoid him when he's in a bad mood. Says an aide, "In such a mood, he can simply ask us to kill some person or the other. But mostly, he doesn't shout or lose his temper." It's after his evening round of meetings which end at 8 pm that Dawood and associates, under heavy armed escort, head for his old house on Khayaban-e-Shamsheer in the Defence Officers Housing Authority in Karachi. Dawood's vehicle, often a Mercedes, is usually in the middle of the cavalcade and is escorted by at least 15 armed guards in two four-wheel-drive vehicles.