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Suspect in Pearl murder held

By B. Muralidhar Reddy

ISLAMABAD, APRIL 17. The Pakistan police have arrested two alleged terrorists, one of them wanted by the Sindh police in the U.S. reporter, Daniel Pearl's murder case.

Pearl was kidnapped and subsequently executed in a gruesome manner by suspected militants in Karachi in early 2002.

While some of the suspects have been nabbed, some others are still at large.

The Punjab (Pakistan) IGP, Saadatullah Khan, said in a statement that the Special Intelligence Unit had rounded up the two alleged terrorists, who were planning criminal activities.

He didn't specify the time and place of the arrests.

Mr. Khan said Malik Tasadduq alias Shahid of the outlawed Lashkar-i-Jhangvi was wanted by the Sindh police in the Pearl case.

He was also wanted in a case of an armed attack on a prison van in which the notorious terrorist, Dilawar, escaped.

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