02 August,2009 09:07 AM IST | | Agencies
Police authorities on Saturday claimed to have arrested top militant Rao Shakir, who is suspected of beheading The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002. Shakir was arrested on the outskirts of Islamabad on Friday night. He is known to be a member of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a banned Sunni Muslim militant group with links to the Taliban and the al-Qaeda. Shakir is also linked to several terrorist strikes, including a suicide attack on a bus of a spy agency, the suicide bombing of the Marriott Hotel last year and an attack in Rawalpindi.
Pearl was abducted from Karachi in 2002 while working on a story on Islamic militancy. His remains were later found in a shallow grave.
