ISLAMABAD- Kidnapped US journalist Daniel Pearl is believed to be in Karachi, or its surroundings, and a new investigation team has been constituted to find him, sources said. The team is headed by Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Crime Investigation Department (CID) Mir Zubair Mahmood, who has just returned from the US after acquiring comprehensive training […]
ISLAMABAD- Security agencies are probing several baffling questions pertaining to the unauthorised stay of an American passport holder Indian Muslim lady, Asra Q Nomani, with whom the kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl had been living in Karachi. The abducted journalist’s worried wife is also putting up with Ms Nomani at a house in […]
KARACHI: Police said Sunday they were interrogating 12 people over the abduction of US journalist Daniel Pearl but no arrests had been made. “No-one has been formally arrested in this case so far,” Manzoor Mughal, one of the chief investigators said. Police in the capital Islamabad had detained two people and were quizzing them Sunday, […]
ISLAMABAD- The abductors of US journalist Daniel Pearl made a telephone contact with the US Consulate in Karachi, however, the law enforcement agencies have so far been unable to trace the call, an official said on Saturday. “The call, demanding a ransom was made somewhere from Islamabad and we are still trying to track down […]
WASHINGTON- Anxiety about the fate of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl remains high here, despite the fact that e-messages received through e-mail on Friday were believed to have been false. The Journal’s Managing Editor, Mr Paul Steiger, said on Saturday: “We now believe that both of the messages received yesterday were false. We continue […]
WASHINGTON- The US State Department on Saturday reiterated its call for the “immediate and unconditional release” of Daniel Pearl, The Wall Street Journal reporter abducted in Pakistan. “We hope for Mr Pearl’s immediate and unconditional release,” according to State Department spokesman Frederick Jones. He added that the kidnappers’ cause is “not being forwarded by holding […]
KARACHI- Police on Friday night and Saturday thoroughly searched all the well-known cemeteries in the city and its suburban areas after they received an electronic message that the American journalist, Daniel Pearl, had been killed and his body dumped in a cemetery. Sources in police said they had carried out an overnight extensive search in […]
WASHINGTON- The Wall Street Journal said on Saturday that it believed its correspondent Daniel Pearl is still alive. With daily twists given to the story by its alleged kidnappers, the abduction is steadily building into a major crisis amid media hype threatening to cast a dark shadow on the upcoming visit by President Gen. Pervez […]
ISLAMABAD- Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has received numerous complaints against certain cable TV operators, who are relaying obscene and vulgar programmes in violation of rules and regulations. The Chairman, PTA Maj. Gen. Shahzada Alam Malik, while presiding over a meeting of the authority has taken a serious view of the breach of code of ethics […]
KARACHI- The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has withdrawn the licenses of four cable operators for relaying certain Indian/Star channels despite the ban imposed by it. The cable operators whose licenses have been withdrawn are Everest Informatics (Pvt) Ltd, Karachi; Vision Cable TV Systems, Karachi; City Communication, Karachi; and City Cable, Karachi. According to PTA, a […]
KARACHI- Sindh Governor Muhammedmian Soomro has assured that all possible steps are being —taken for safe recovery of American journalist, Daniel Pearl. He held out the assurance to Mrs. Daniel who met him at the Governor House on Friday. The wife of the Governor, Begum Khadija Soomro, Home Secretary, Brig Mukhtar Ahmed (Retd), IG Police, […]
KARACHI- The US Embassy and consulates in Pakistan have asked the US journalists to leave Pakistan. The US embassy and consulates called on Thursday the US journalists working in Pakistan. These journalists were issued strict instructions not to leave their hotel premises until necessary and do not hire cabs. These journalists were told of reports […]
KARACHI- Kidnappers holding missing US journalist Daniel Pearl Friday demanded two million dollars within 36 hours for his safe release, a police officer said. The anonymous call late Friday to the US consulate in Karachi, also demanded the release of the former Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, a senior police official told the […]
HYDERABAD- Activists of the Pak-American Human Rights Wing of International Peace Friends Society Pakistan held a protest demonstration outside the press club on Friday against the kidnapping of American journalist Daniel Pearl. Talking to newsmen, the president of the organization, Saeed Nizami said that the American journalist had been kidnapped by Taliban, Al-Qaeda and Indian […]
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