Azhar’s role in orchestrating the 1999 Kandahar hijack facilitated the release of Omar Saeed Sheikh, a key Al-Qaeda operative, who kidnapped and murdered Pearl. The journalist was beheaded in 2002, an ...

Daniel Pearl disappeared in the southern Pakistani ... One of the pictures showed him with a gun to his head. -In their second mail, the he group called for the release of Pakistani nationals ...

the operational head of Jaish-e-Mohammad and mastermind of the IC-814 hijacking. Azhar was also involved in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl.

The Indian government on Wednesday announced that a military operation has killed a Pakistani terrorist, Abdul Rauf Azhar, who was involved in the 2002 murder of a Jewish-American journalist, Daniel ...