SIALKOT- Journalists and lawyers of Sialkot joined hands with the newsmen of Head Marala to protest against the killing of Jaffar Khan by Muradpur police on Feb 21. Jaffar Khan was the daily Pakistan’s correspondent and a councillor of a Head Marala union council. The correspondents of national dailies based in Head Marala continued their […]
ISLAMABAD- President General Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday directed the National Reconstruction Bureau to expedite the work on constitutional amendments as the government was determined to hold elections on time. “The process of amendments in the Constitution be accelerated so that the election plan is implemented in accordance with the roadmap for democracy,” sources quoted the […]
ISLAMABAD- President Pervez Musharraf met the wife of murdered US reporter Daniel Pearl in Islamabad on Wednesday to console her, state television said. It quoted General Musharraf as telling Pearl’s pregnant wife Mariane that his government would “spare no efforts” to trace her husband’s killers. Pearl’s body has not been found. Source: The News Date:2/28/2002
KARACHI- Police beefed up security at a Karachi jail on Wednesday after an anonymous phone call threatened a rocket attack if the man accused of being the ringleader of the kidnapping of US reporter Daniel Pearl was extradited, police sources said. Sources said the phone call was received late on Tuesday and the caller had […]
BALI- Pakistan said Wednesday it would consider handing over the suspected kidnapper of slain reporter Daniel Pearl to the United States, but assured Washington that Pearl’s killers would face stern justice in Pakistan. Moinuddin Haider, interior minister, said the US government had “not given us an official request” for the extradition of Ahmed Omar Saeed […]
KARACHI- Pakistan was considering on Wednesday the US requests to extradite British-born militant Sheikh Omar, the confessed mastermind of slain US reporter Daniel Pearl’s abduction, as Washington offered a five-million-dollar reward for information on the journalist’s killers. “Today we are announcing a five-million-dollar reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction in any country […]
WASHINGTON- The pregnant widow of Daniel Pearl said on Tuesday she still had great affection for Pakistan despite her husband’s murder and praised investigators who tried to rescue him. In her first interviews since her husband’s videotaped killing by his captors was disclosed last week, Mariane Pearl said the Pakistani people, and especially investigators, had […]
KARACHI- The prime suspect in US journalist Daniel Pearl kidnapping and murder case, Ahmed Omar Saeed Shaikh, was on Tuesday identified by a prosecution witness during identification parade held before the Judicial Magistrate Karachi South, Ms Erum Jehangir. During the identification parade, no one, including the court staff, was permitted to come into the office […]
ISLAMABAD- According to the extradition treaty with the United States which Pakistan adopted in 1947, British-born militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, main suspect in Pearl’s kidnap and murder can be handed over to the US if his Pakistani citizenship is established, as authorities are not sure whether he is Pakistani national. “It is not confirmed […]
ISLAMABAD- President Pervez Musharraf and the US ambassador to Pakistan Wendy Chamberlin on Tuesday discussed the possible extradition to the United States of the suspected mastermind of the kidnap of murdered American reporter Daniel Pearl , a US spokesman said. The meeting comes a day after President Bush said Washington wanted to put the British-born […]
New York- Although the US administration and the media is all appreciative, sympathetic and worried about President Musharraf’s well being, but it is the ISI which is being targeted in the death of WSJ’s Daniel Pearl. India’s intelligence apparatus RAW which had the custody for five solid years, specially when the adventure loving British boy […]
KARACHI- Sindh Governor Muhammadmian Soomro and his wife Khadija Soomro, while expressing their heart-felt grief and sorrow over the tragic death of US journalist Daniel Pearl, offered condolences to his widow. The governor and his wife, who are in Saudi Arabia to perform Haj, conveyed their condolences to Mariana Pearl over telephone. They described Daniel’s […]
WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD- President Pervez Musharraf called US Secretary of State Colin Powell on Tuesday about the possible handover of the man suspected of organising the kidnap of murdered US reporter Daniel Pearl. The United States wants custody of the man, British-born Islamic radical Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, either by extradition under a 1931 treaty or by […]
ISLAMABAD- Lawyers on Tuesday questioned America’s right to seek the extradition of a man suspected of masterminding the kidnap of murdered US reporter Daniel Pearl for offences not committed on US soil. US officials said on Monday that Washington might seek the extradition of British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh by applying a colonial-era treaty. They […]
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