DAR AL ISLAM - PAKISTAN: 2 SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN THE DANIEL PEARL CASE, A QUESTION ARISES: WERE THE ARRESTS RECENT OR DO THEY DATE BACK TO 2003?!?

Pakistan arrests 2 suspects in Daniel Pearl case

Karachi: Pakistani police have arrested two militants suspected of involvement in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl, government officials said on Tuesday.

Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was kidnapped in the city of Karachi in January 2002 while he was researching a story on Islamist militants. He was later found beheaded.

A British Islamist militant, Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, or Shaikh Omar, has been sentenced to death for the murder. Three co-accused were jailed for life.

The two new suspects were arrested on Monday in Kashmore, a remote town near the border of southern Sindh and southwestern Baluchistan provinces.

"Both were suspected in the Daniel Pearl case. They are being interrogated," Waseem Akhtar, Sindh provincial government adviser on home affairs told reporters.

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However, a lawyer for the men's families said they were picked up by security agencies in 2003 and held secretly since then.


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