TOBA TEK SINGH- The police have no clue yet to Daniel Pearl kidnap-and-murder case suspect Amjad Ali Farooqi. Sources said no significant information had been obtained from Muhammad Amer and Muhammad Javed, his two brothers who have been interrogated by several teams and remain in Toba Tek Singh police custody three weeks after their arrest. […]
PESHAWAR- Lives of foreign journalists are considered to be at risk, as the Taliban and suspected al-Qaeda fighters intensified their guerrilla attacks on the US and its allied forces in different parts of Afghanistan. Reports suggest that plans have allegedly been drawn by armed Afghan groups to hold the westerners hostage and subsequently swap them […]
KARACHI- A spokesman of Sindh Home Department on Tuesday denied that there was lack of evidence, which marred the Daniel Pearl murder case. The spokesman was reacting to a news item appearing in The News, on March 5, 2002, purportedly highlighting the imaginary lapses on the part of the investigation agency. The spokesman said that […]
KARACHI- The constitutional petition, filed by wife of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, prime suspect in the Daniel Pearl case, seeking a restraining order against his extradition, was on Tuesday disposed of by a division bench of the Sindh High Court, comprising Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Zia Pervez. Sadia Ahmed Omar Saeed Shaikh had filed […]
KARACHI- Pakistan said that no laws would be violated if it decides to extradite to the United States the confessed mastermind of slain American reporter Daniel Pearl’s abduction. After assurances by the public prosecutor, the Sindh High Court threw out a petition filed by the wife of chief suspect Sheikh Omar asking that the British […]
KARACHI- With only 10 days left in trial of four accused in the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl kidnapping and murder case, police investigators lack the basic evidence against the accused and are no where near solving the murder mystery. This was revealed in interviews with several police investigators and officials familiar with the […]
FAISALABAD- Police arrested on Sunday night the wife of Amjad Hussain Farooqi who is allegedly involved in the kidnapping-cum-murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl. A police source said a special team raided the house of in-laws of Amjad Farooqi in a village of Samundri tehsil. After failing to find Amjad, it arrested his wife and […]
ISLAMABAD- Pakistan has formally conveyed its decision to the United States that it will try Ahmed Omar Saeed Shaikh, the prime suspect in Daniel Pearl kidnapping case, sources in the interior ministry said. “He would be tried in Pakistan according to the law of the land,” a senior official said. During a meeting with US […]
KARACHI— Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider said that government is taking strict measures against those involved in terrorism. “We are not against any religious group, but now we have to send strong messages to such persons, who are killing innocent people in the name of sectarianism.” The Minister said that police is searching for the four […]
NEW YORK- The intelligence agency of Pakistan, ISI, has no involvement in the kidnapping or murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, said US Secretary of State Colin Powell. This statement has discouraged those elements that are engaged in creating impressions abroad that ISI had some kind of hand and attempted to cover-up the murder of […]
ISLAMABAD- PTV spokesman Sunday regretted Indian decision to ban Pakistan Television (PTV) transmission in the Gujarat state for allegedly broadcasting provocative reports of the communal violence in that state which so far claimed over 400 lives. “PTV has been reporting nothing but facts as they have unfolded and the Gujarat government’s ban on its transmission […]
KARACHI- The wife of the confessed mastermind of slain US reporter Daniel Pearl’s kidnapping has appealed to Pakistan not to extradite her husband to the United States, court officials said Saturday. Sadia Omar Sheikh, wife of British Islamic militant Sheikh Omar, told Sindh High Court Friday that her husband was not behind Pearl’s abduction and […]
ISLAMABAD- Editor of The News, Shaheen Sehbai resigned on Friday. In his resignation, also e-mailed to journalists, he has refuted all charges of “policy violations”, which according to him were an excuse for the Editor-in-Chief to comply with the government demand to sack him and three other senior journalists working for the newspaper. He said […]
ISLAMABAD- President General Pervez Musharraf promulgated on Friday Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Ordinance 2002 to regulate and develop broadcast media in the country. The Ordinance that comes into force at once in the whole of Pakistan is aimed at improving the standard of information education and entertainment as well as enlarge the choice […]
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