There’s Much More To Daniel Pearl’s Murder Than Meets the Eye
Published Date: March 10, 2002– https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2002/03/10/missing-links/e1bf1bf4-162e-4f27-85c4-fcd4bda4d00b/
AMHERST, Mass. — Nine days ago there was an alarming indication of upheaval in Pakistan — a crackdown on the press. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the government pressured the owner of an influential English language newspaper, the News, to fire four journalists. One of them, the paper’s editor, Shaheen Sehbai, said the trouble started after his newspaper reported a link between the prime suspect in the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, and recent attacks on the Indian parliament in Delhi and in the Kashmiri capital, Srinagar. When Sehbai asked the paper’s owner to identify who wanted to sack them, Sehbai said he was told to see officials at the ISI, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency. Instead he resigned and left for the United States.
Continue reading “Missing Links”