Pakistani police have made two more arrests in the search for kidnapped US journalist Daniel Pearl but Sheikh Omar remained at large. Islamabad police said the two men were rounded up in the capital, bringing to around 16 the number of people arrested since Pearl went missing on January 23. The arrests relate to phone calls they made from a mobile telephone.
Sheikh Omar's probably in Bahrain or Indonesia by now. The Paks shoulda kept better tabs on him - he used to be one of their fair-haired boys.
Pearl Case: No negotiations
Pakistan's interior minister ruled out any negotiations with the kidnappers of US reporter Daniel Pearl, who have eluded investigators for 17 days. "There is no negotiation and there will be no negotiations," Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider told reporters when asked about the possibility.
Pearl Case: ISI incontinence
MuslimPundit discusses the wet pants syndrome which must be afflicting those ISI controllers associated with Sheikh Omar. "Now that all eyes are on the whereabouts and safety of Daniel Pearl, the ISI will have to rightly suffer the anguish of having their past record pried open even further."
Pearl Case: Auntie calls Sheikh Omar, sez the jig's up
An aunt of the main suspect in Daniel Pearl's kidnapping spoke with her nephew by telephone and pleaded with him to free the Wall Street Journal reporter. Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh and his aunt talked by cellphone last Tuesday, and she told him she was in police custody and urged him to turn himself in, Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider said. "She said: 'We have been rounded up by the police and I think your game is out and we didn't know you were indulging in this. You better hand over yourself,' and after that his telephone went dead," Haider told reporters in Karachi.
She also said the place where her knees used to be really hurt...
Pearl Case: Ticket was cancelled
The PIA ticket reserved in the name of Daniel Pearl, was cancelled in the wee hours of Saturday, and the government was contemplating action against the ticket-issuing travel agency. According to the reports from the federal capital, the government had taken notice of the ticket issued in the name of Daniel Pearl, and would investigate into it. |