British-Pakistani terrorist Omar Sheikh shifted from Karachi to Lahore jail
An official of the Punjab government said that 48-year-old Sheikh was brought from Karachi by air on Thursday evening and shifted to Kot Lakhpat jail amid high security.
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LAHORE: British-born al-Qaeda terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was on death row for 18 years before his acquittal last year in the sensational kidnapping and beheading of US journalist Daniel Pearl, has been shifted to Lahore s Kot Lakhpat jail from Karachi, officials said on Friday.
Pearl, the 38-year-old South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, was abducted and beheaded while he was in Pakistan investigating a story in 2002 on the links between the country s powerful spy agency ISI and al-Qaeda.
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