KARACHI: Police and intelligence agencies have apprehended an accused, wanted in US journalist Daniel Pearl murder case from Golimar area of Karachi early on Friday.
Rizvia Society Police said, in a joint action with intelligence agencies, police nabbed Abdul Rehman alias Sindhi from Golimar. Police recovered a pistol from his possession and shifted him to an undisclosed location for interrogation.
Police claimed Abdul Rehman is affiliated to Al-Qaeda and had held meeting with Osama Bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Afghan Taliban Chief Mullah Omar.
Abdul Rehman is close aide of Saud Memom, accused and facilitator in Daniel Pearl murder.
Saud Memon was a businessman from Karachi. He was said to own the shed where American journalist Daniel Pearl was killed.
Memon was wanted by law-enforcement agencies in the Pearl case for supposedly providing the place where Pearl was beheaded and subsequently buried.
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