Operation Sindoor revives Daniel Pearl beheading case after 23 years. Who was he?
Almost more than two decades after Jewish-American journalist
Daniel Pearl
was kidnapped and brutally beheaded in Pakistan, his name once again dominated the headlines after India launched'
Operation Sindoor
' on May 7. The operation struck terror factories at nine locations in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in retaliation for the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 civilians on April 22.
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Operation Sindoor targeted terror camps associated with
Lashkar-e-Taiba
(LeT) and
Jaish-e-Mohammed
(JeM) -- the very same terrorist groups long linked to Pearl's murder. His brutal murder in Pakistan in 2002 had shocked the world.
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'I still have chills...': US journalist hails Operation Sindoor in Pak's Bahawalpur where her colleague Daniel Pearl was beheaded
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Who was Daniel Pearl? Key points you should know:
-Daniel Pearl was a Jewish-American and South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal. He was abducted and beheaded in 2002 while investigating Islamist terrorists in Karachi while he was investigating terror links in Pakistan.
-Daniel Pearl began reporting for The Wall Street Journal in 1990, working in Atlanta, Washington, London and Paris before moving to Bombay to cover South Asia. As the Journal's South Asia bureau chief, he dedicated himself to explaining the Arab and Islamic worlds to Journal readers, according to WSJ.
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-He was reporting on terrorist networks in Pakistan in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks when he disappeared in the southern city of Karachi in January 2002. He was killed days later, beheaded in an execution that was videotaped and released on the internet.
-Born in Princeton, N.J., Pearl graduated in 1985 from Stanford University. Before joining the Journal, Pearl worked for several newspapers in Massachusetts, once winning an American Planning Association Award for a five-part series on land use. Pearl was posthumously honored by the National Press Club, which conferred on him the 2002 John Aubuchon Award for Press Freedom.
-The killing of
Abdul Rauf Azhar
, brother of Mazood Azhar, brought long-standing justice to Pearl's family after 23 years. Azhar's role in the IC-814 hijacking had led to release of Omar Saeed Sheikh, who later kidnapped and killed Daniel Pearl.
-Asra Nomani, an Indian-American journalist and a former colleague of Pearl, recalled the deep ties between Bahawalpur and Pearl's murder. In a post on X, she shared how this operation felt like a long-overdue response.
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US journalist Daniel Pearl, beheaded by terrorists in Pakistan, gets justice via Operation Sindoor. What happened to him?
-Daniel Pearl was stationed in New Delhi prior to being relocated to Karachi after the September 11 attacks in the United States. He was investigating links between terror organisations and Pakistan's intelligence agency when he was kidnapped on January 23, 2002.
-The kidnappers, who identified themselves as the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty, accused him of being an Israeli spy. They issued a number of demands to the US government, which were not fulfilled. A few days later, Pearl was murdered on tape.
-Pearl's last words were, "My father's Jewish, my mother's Jewish, I'm Jewish. My family follows Judaism. Back in the town of Bnei Brak, there is a street named after my great grandfather, Chaim Pearl, who was one of the founders of the town."
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