This undated handout file picture from the Wall Street Journal shows Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl who disappeared in Karachi January 23, 2002 after telling his wife he was going to interview an militant group leader. PHOTO: AFP
Qari Abdul Hayee, popularly known as Asadullah and from Karachi's eastern Gulshan-e-Iqbal neighbourhood, was detained in a raid on his hideout on Sunday, according to a spokesperson for Rangers paramilitary force. Hayee was the former Sindh chapter chief of banned outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ).
Ruth and Judea Pearl, who live in the Los Angeles area, hailed the news, in a statement issued through the New York-based Daniel Pearl Foundation.
"We are gratified with this latest arrest and hope that justice will be served in a timely manner on all those who were involved in the abduction and murder of our son, Danny," they said.
Pearl, 38, was the South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal when he was abducted in Karachi on January 23, 2002, while researching a story about militants.
A graphic video showing his decapitation was delivered to the US consulate in the city nearly a month later.
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This a great Success to the Law Enforcement Agencies in Pakistan. As they have taken there Citizens to there Country for Trials, So we must put him in trial (In Public) as a remembrance to every one that we have Laws here in Pakistan and we can Punish according to our Laws.
@shameless: "Why are most of these militants arrested in Pakistan?" Very good question you have asked. Just take the trouble to read what happened in 1980 when U.S. was fighting a proxy war with the Soviet Union in a proxy war. U.S. in direct alliance with Saudi Arabia and Zia ul Haq recruited thousands of "mujahideen" from all over the world, primarily from the Middle East, gave them arms and ammunitions and trained them how to use it, and created the Madrasas to indoctrinate them on how to fight the 'kuffars.' Today these same people are called Talibans.
@Faisal: friend you are right and true Pakistani who will defend the honor of the country.
@Faisal
Quit blaming the victims - he had his head cut off and one of the perps has been living comfortably inside Pakistan for years - isn't that bad enough.
There is always a fair number of western journalists in Pakistan, why was Daniel Pearl killed?? Maybe because he was a CIA agent !!
@shameless
They are found in Pakistan as Pakistan provides them the best place to cover with support infrastructure and most importantly a sympathetic and supportive populace ( barring minorities and a few liberal /secular people ) and sections of the Intelligence
Why are most of these militants arrested in Pakistan.