WASHINGTON, March 14: British-born militant Ahmed Saeed Omar Shaikh was indicted on two counts of hostage taking in the kidnapping and slaying of US reporter Daniel Pearl, according to documents released by the Justice Department on Thursday.
The indictments were handed up by a federal grand jury in Newark, New Jersey, and charged him with one count of hostage taking and one count of conspiring to take hostages resulting in the death of Pearl.
The US has been pressing Pakistan to hand over Shaikh Omar, the confessed mastermind of Pearl’s abduction.—Reuters
