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Praise for President, blame for ISI

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 […]


Sindh Governor condoles Pearl’s death with Mariana

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 […]


Musharraf, Powell discuss extradition in Pearl case

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 […]


Lawyers query US extradition bid in Pearl case

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 […]


Bush wants extradition of Omar, others

WASHINGTON- President George W.Bush has added his voice to the demands that Omar Saeed Shaikh and others accused of kidnap, and murder of Daniel Pearl should be extradited by Pakistan, and brought to the United States for trial. White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said on Monday that the US would “very much like to […]


Asma condemns Pearl killing

LAHORE- Human rights activist Asma Jahangir has severely condemned the incident of killing Daniel Pearl. She said the gruesome death of Daniel Pearl indicates that he lost his life on some murky facts which is against the principles of humanity. She stressed that the government should bring the murderers to justice and share the facts […]


Video fails to solve Pearl murder riddles

ISLAMABAD- Four days after a video showing kidnapped US reporter Daniel Pearl’s gruesome death surfaced in Karachi, investigators seem no closer to finding his decapitated body or knowing where or when he died. As a Karachi court on Monday extended the police detention of the alleged mastermind of the kidnapping and two others by 14 […]


Israelis claim slain US journalist as their own

JERUSALEM- Israelis claimed murdered American journalist Daniel Pearl as one of their own on Sunday, amid revelations that his parents were Israelis and that he said on videotape that he was a Jew just before he was killed. Israeli newspapers published interviews with Pearl’s grandmother in Tel Aviv and his father in the United States, […]


Pearl’s killers won’t go unpunished

ISLAMABAD- The Pakistan government has made it clear that those responsible for the kidnapping and the murder of US journalist, Daniel Pearl, would not go unpunished. The government officials say that they are fully trying to trace those responsible for the murder of Daniel Pearl. Federal Interior Secretary Tasneem Noorani told BBC that the killers […]


Body disposed of in water

LAHORE- Some of the police investigators in US journalist Daniel Pearl’s abduction-turned-murder case believe the killers might have disposed of the headless body in water, be it a channel, a canal or a river in Sindh or Punjab, or the Arabian Sea, sources close to the investigation said. While the Arabian Sea and the rivers […]


Nasrullah Khan passes away

KARACHI- Nasrullah Khan, well-known journalist and playwright, died on Feb 23 in the US where he had been residing for the past several years. He was 83. He is survived by two sons and four daughters. The late Mr Khan began his journalistic career with Maulana Zafar Ali Khan’s daily Zamindaar which played an important […]


Canadians keen to invest in power, telecom, IT sectors

ISLAMABAD- Sensing the investor friendly policy of Pakistan government, Canadian investors have shown interest in power, telecommunication and information technology. This was stated by Anthony Rustin and Stephane Mail Hot, whose firm is currently a joint venture partner in Southern Electric Company, an IPP located outside Lahore with a capacity of 110 megawatt. A four […]


Ban on jehadi magazines

LAHORE- The Interior Ministry has directed all the four provincial Home Secretaries to ban the publication of magazines being issued by the religious and Jehadi organisations under Section 11-B of Prevention of Terrorism Act. The Interior Ministry has also directed the Home Secretaries to seal the offices of these magazines, freeze their assets and confiscate […]


Pearl’s killers warn probe team

ISLAMABAD- The members of the special investigation team, probing the brutal murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl in Karachi, have received a number of threatening phone calls from his killers who have asked them to stop their probe or get ready to face the consequences, it is reliably learnt. Sources said the first call was […]