Daniel Pearl Terror Suspect Held In Pakistan

A former senior militant who was allegedly involved in the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl has been arrested in Pakistan.

A spokesman for the Pakistani Rangers paramilitary force said Qari Abdul Hayee, who is better known as Asadullah, had been detained in a raid in Karachi.

Asadullah used to be the chief of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) group in the southern province of Sindh and is said to have been involved in several terror acts.

He was also "in the picture" about the murder of Mr Pearl in February 2002, the Rangers spokesman said, without elaborating.

Mr 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 Islamist militants.

Members of the Pakistani Rangers, like those seen here, arrested Asadullah

A graphic video showing him being beheaded was delivered to the US consulate in the city nearly a month later.

Angelina Jolie starred as Mr Pearl's wife Mariane in A Mighty Heart, which dramatised her search for her missing husband.

Pakistani police blamed Mr Pearl's kidnap and murder on a group of Islamic militants headed by Ahmed Saeed Sheikh, who is also known as Sheikh Omar.

The British-born extremist was arrested with three others and convicted in June 2002 of Mr Pearl's murder.

Seven co-accused were sentenced in absentia, and two of them were later killed in encounters with the police.

Court documents said the men masterminded Mr Pearl's kidnapping in an attempt to win freedom for al Qaeda members who were imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay.

Omar and three others who were jailed for life lodged appeals that remain pending in Pakistan.

LeJ also planned a suicide attack on a hotel near Karachi airport where US soldiers were staying in December 2002, but the bomb exploded while it was being prepared and killed one of Asadullah's associates instead.

In 2003, the group sent parcel bombs to police officers, injuring many people.

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