Pakistan Says It’s Holding a Suspect in Pearl Killing
A prime suspect in the kidnapping and killing of Daniel Pearl was arrested Wednesday by Pakistani intelligence agents, officials said. The suspect, Mohammad Hashim Qadeer, is accused of arranging a first meeting between Mr. Pearl and Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh at a hotel in Rawalpindi, a city near the capital of Islamabad. Mr. Pearl, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, was later lured by Mr. Sheikh to a January 2002 meeting in the southern port city of Karachi, where he was abducted and, eventually, beheaded. Full Story