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India-Pakistan
Pakistan Arrests Terrorist Linked to Daniel Pearl Murder
2013-03-19
The mills of Justice certainly grind slowly in this case. Is the ISI perhaps protecting the gentleman from ghosts in the night and Predators in the sky?
Pakistani security officials have arrested a former senior leader of a banned terrorist outfit who was allegedly involved in the 2002 murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl in Karachi.

Qari Abdul Hayee, popularly known as Asadullah and from Karachi's eastern Gulshan-e-Iqbal neighborhood, was detained in a raid on his hideout on Sunday, said a spokesman for the Rangers paramilitary force, according to the AFP news agency.

Asadullah was formerly chief of the sectarian group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) in the southern province of Sindh and was "involved in several terror acts", said the official.

"He was also in the picture about US journalist Daniel Pearl's murder case," the spokesman said without elaborating.

Pearl, 38, was the South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal when he was abducted in Karachi on January 23, 2002, while researching a story about Islamist terrorists.

A graphic video showing his decapitation was delivered to the US consulate in the city nearly a month later.

The spokesman said that in 2003 the group led by Asadullah had sent parcel bombs to police officers, injuring many people.
Posted by:tipper

#1  Pakistan Arrests Terrorist Linked to Daniel Pearl Murder

"...Not that he'll be in jug that long anyways..."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2013-03-19 21:08  

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