KARACHI- While President Pervez Musharraf was telling a White House press corps that he was “reasonably sure that Daniel Pearl is still alive” and “We are as close as possible to getting him released”, on Wednesday, Pakistani investigators had hit a new dead-end in their investigation coupled with fresh indications that the Wall Street Journal […]
WASHINGTON- President General Musharraf on Thursday dismissed claims by the alleged kidnapper of US journalist Daniel Pearl that the reporter was dead and said his government was exerting “all kinds of pressure” to secure his release. British-born militant Sheikh Omar told a court on Thursday that Pearl was dead, reversing earlier statements to the police […]
KARACHI- Another suspect in the kidnapping of the US reporter Daniel Pearl was taken into custody in the city on Thursday, well-placed sources in the police said. The sources said five suspects were taken into custody in New Karachi and Buffer Zone in a murder case of a 40-year-old doctor, Syed Rashid Mehdi. The doctor […]
KARACHI- Recovery of the kidnapped US journalist Daniel Pearl is a matter of a couple of days, the provincial police chief Kamal Shah told a press conference on Thursday. “We are fully satisfied with the way and the pace of investigation and all involved in the kidnapping will be arrested. It is impossible to give […]
KARACHI- The prime suspect in the Daniel Pearl kidnapping case, Shaikh Omar Ahmed Saeed, said on Thursday as far as he understood the US journalist was dead. The suspect, who was produced around 12 noon before the Anti- Terrorism Court No. 3 by the police for seeking his custody for interrogation, also admitted before the […]
KARACHI- Interrogating Shaikh Muhammad Omar, the prime suspect in Wall Street Journal’s correspondent Daniel Pearl’s kidnapping case, the police investigators on Friday claimed that they have finally identified direction of investigations and have picked up some more suspects, insiders revealed Thursday. “We have conducted more raids in various parts of the megapolis on Thursday and […]
KARACHI- The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Sindh, Syed Kamal Shah, said Thursday that he and his teams of police investigators did not give much credence to the statement of the prime suspect Shaikh Omar in the Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl’s kidnapping case that the reporter was dead. Addressing a hurriedly called, crowded press […]
WASHINGTON- President George W. Bush hopes “very deeply” that abducted US reported Daniel Pearl is still alive, the White House said Thursday after the chief suspect in his kidnapping said the journalist was dead. “We’ve heard those reports. There is no confirmation of that, we cannot confirm that,” Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters. “Obviously, […]
LAHORE- The Lahore High Court (LHC) Bar Association has extended every cooperation, which is needed to defend freedom of the Press. President of the Bar Israrul Haq Mian, along with the Secretary, Rana Mashhood Ahmad Khan, said that apart from protecting the independence of Judiciary, rule of law and the human rights, the lawyers are […]
ISLAMABAD- Pakistan Thursday said it would not give any credence to the statements by Omar Sheikh, the chief suspect in abduction of Daniel Pearl, who claimed the Wall Street Journal reporter is dead. “He (Sheikh) has been changing his statements from day to day and we cannot give any credence to any of the statements […]
ISLAMABAD- The government has banned this week’s edition of Newsweek, the US-based weekly, because it carries stories and images that are harmful to Muslim faith. Bookstores said that this week’s edition of the weekly, which is available on Tuesdays of every week, did not even hit the stands as the government banned the February 11 […]
KARACHI- The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has cancelled the licences of five more cable operators relaying banned Indian channels. According to the PTA sources, after receiving complaints about five cable operators for violation of PTA Act 1996, a team of the authority raided the offices of cable operators in Gulistan-e-Jauhar and Gulshan-e-Iqbal and cancelled their […]
ISLAMABAD- The Judicial Magistrate, Islamabad, Mohammad Mumtaz Hussain, discharged on Wednesday a mobile phone dealer from his alleged involvement in the abduction of the US journalist for lack of evidence. The dealer, Abdul Majid, was arrested by the special investigation team of the Islamabad police from his office at the Bank Road, Rawalpindi, a couple […]
ISLAMABAD- Federal Secretary Interior Tasneem Noorani said on Wednesday the government agencies had failed to get any major clue about kidnapped journalist Daniel Pearl from the prime suspect Sheikh Omar who was arrested in Lahore on Tuesday. The secretary gave an unusual statement before the Public Accounts Committee members, saying government’s drastic action against the […]
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