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Arrest made in Pearl case

Asif Shahzad of The Associated Press reports that Pakistan police have arrested a suspect in the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

Shahzad writes, “Rao Shakir, a purported member of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, was arrested on the outskirts of Islamabad late Friday, a police official said.

“The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

“Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is a banned Sunni Muslim militant group linked to both the Taliban and al-Qaida and has been blamed for killing scores of minority Shiites across Pakistan. Its members have been accused of attacks against Westerners in Karachi, including Pearl’s killing and the September 2008 truck bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad.”

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