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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47924)	3/2/2005 4:42:36 PM
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Pakistani police Wednesday arrested an Islamic extremist who was sentenced to death for a 2002 suicide car bomb blast outside Karachi's Sheraton Hotel which killed 11 French engineers, an official said. Police said they suspect Mohammad Sohail also filmed the beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was abducted in the volatile southern city in early 2002. Sohail, a member of the Harkat Jihad-e-Islami militant group, was detained after falling off a motorbike during a shoot-out with police in Karachi, city police officer Mohammad Fayyaz told. He was one of three Sunni Muslim militants sentenced by an anti-terrorism court in June 2003 for the blast outside the hotel, which killed 11 French engineers and three Pakistanis. He was convicted in absentia. "He was arrested after he fell down from a motorcycle, while five other terrorists escaped after firing at police," Fayyaz said. Fayyaz said during an initial interrogation Sohail had confessed to a role in the death of Pearl and a December 2003 suicide attack on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. "He could be the cameraman who made the video of Pearl's slaying and we are interrogating him," the officer added. The capture may turn out to be a major breakthrough in the Pearl case, he said, but refused to give more information. "We have just arrested him and it's premature to give such details, which could affect the probe," Fayyaz said, adding that police were conducting raids to hunt down Sohail's five accomplices who escaped. Sohail has also told police that in the Musharraf case his role was to survey the site of the bomb attack in the northern city of Rawalpindi where the president's motorcade was targeted, Fayyaz said. The militant was also a close associate of Al-Qaeda kingpin Amjad Farooqi, who was killed by police last year after having been indicted in Pearl's abduction and murder, the police officer added.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47924)	3/2/2005 4:43:47 PM
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Bin Laden, Omer, Al-Zawahiri no more in Afghnistan: Afghan official KARACHI: Afghan Consul General (CG) in Pakistan Abdul Muqtader Frozanfar Wednesday said Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omer and Ayman Al-Zawahiri were no more hiding in Afghnistan and he believed Taliban strength was diluting in the country. “Rashid Dostum is not raised to the rank of army chief, but he is vice army chief. Following his appointed in the army situation in the country has improved substantially, said Mr Frozanfar. This he said while talking to journalists after inaugural session of a two-day international workshop titled 'the Challenges of Rebuilding Afghanistan'. The session was addressed by Vice Chancellor University of Karachi, Dr Perzada Qasim, Chairperson International Relations department Khalida Ghous, The Hanns Seidel Foundation’s Dr Aderyarzudk and other distinguished dignitaries. The workshop was organized by The Program on Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Departmental of International Relations, University of Karachi in collaboration with The Hanns Seidel Foundation, Islamabad. The Afghan CG informed that Afghanistan rebuilding and reconstruction process was going well. However, he noted that more concrete steps were needed for the revival of education sector. He said roads network had been improved significantly, adding, "Now, it would take only six hours from Kabul to Qandhar which was earlier a matter of couple of days." He said old universities were being revived or reconstructed besides setting up new ones in main cities including Qandhar, Mazar-e-Sharif, Kabul, Jalalabad, etc. To a question, he said there were no hurdles in rebuilding and reconstruction of Afghanistan. Taliban chapter was over, he remarked adding that the present Government believed to continue dialogue with limited number of Taliban to make them contribute in reconstruction of the country and making it economically strong. He thanked Government of Pakistan and the people for extending moral and logistic support to Afghan people.