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...Nobody has said this to my face, but possibly my Pakistani origin kept people away after Sept. 11,” he said. According to Iftikhar, sales dropped by almost 40 percent after the terror attacks...
Saeed's immediate extradition seems unlikely. For starters, the crime took place in Pakistan. Moreover, under Pakistani law it's illegal to extradite a suspect once court proceedings have begun. But should some legal loophole make that possible, Saeed would still have the right to appeal the extradition--keeping the case stuck in Pakistan's courts for a while...
...That's still the official line about the Jan. 11 deportation of Pakistani Havis Muhhamad Saad Iqbal; but Egyptian diplomats have never heard of him. "We have no knowledge of this matter," says Minister Plenipotentiary Reda El-Taify. "We are not aware that Egyptian intelligence was ever in Indonesia or that the Pakistani was wanted in Egypt." So where did Havis go? One clue: the 25-year-old was wanted by the U.S. for a possible connection to the shoe bomber, Richard Reid. Intelligence sources in Jakarta say Havis was bundled onto a CIA Gulfstream G-5 executive...
PAKISTAN MORE EVIDENCE A cab driver became the second person to link Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh to the kidnapping of murdered U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl. The driver told a Karachi court that Sheikh had greeted Pearl when he was dropped outside a restaurant on Jan. 23. Pakistani officials say they want to complete their investigation of lead suspect Sheikh before considering a request for his extradition...
...ally in all of South and Central Asia. When President Nixon sought to engage China, it was Pakistan that helped. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, it was Pakistan which stepped up to arm and train the mujahedeen. In the ’50s and ’60s, Pakistani bases were used by American U-2s spying on the Soviet Union. Today, those very bases have become staging grounds for the war on terror. Yet America’s ally has fallen on hard times. Pakistan is a country held hostage by its own “special interests?...