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Time of India
03-06-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Who is Curtis Yarvin? Meet the ‘intellectual source code' of the second Trump administration
Curtis Yarvin, a tech entrepreneur turned political theorist, has emerged as one of the most controversial and influential minds behind the radical ideological shift shaping Donald Trump's second presidency. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Known online by his former pseudonym Mencius Moldbug, Yarvin champions a vision of government that replaces democracy with a CEO-style autocracy. Once confined to obscure blogs, his ideas are now seeping into mainstream conservative politics, embraced by figures close to Trump's inner circle. Yarvin's journey from Silicon Valley coder to anti-democracy philosopher offers insight into the new authoritarian playbook being tested in real time in Washington. Curtis Yarvin's influence on Trump's second term While Yarvin has never held public office, his ideas have penetrated Trump-aligned circles in striking ways. The Trump administration's second-term playbook featuring the purge of career civil servants, erosion of checks and balances, and elevation of loyalist executives bears strong resemblance to Yarvin's vision of streamlined, top-down control. Often described as the 'intellectual source code' of this new governance model, Yarvin has provided the ideological framework for dismantling liberal democratic norms. Figures such as Vice President J.D. Vance have echoed his call to dismantle the so-called 'deep state,' while tech billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk have embraced Yarvin-esque principles of elite rule, efficiency over democratic process, and corporate-style governance. Musk's expanding influence in areas from space to education has even led some to describe him as an unelected 'czar' — a real-world manifestation of Yarvin's authoritarian, CEO-led state. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now From math prodigy to tech dropout Born in 1973 into a liberal, secular family, Curtis Yarvin was raised in Maryland by a diplomat father and a Protestant mother. His paternal grandparents were Jewish-American communists, marking a sharp contrast to the ideology he would later adopt. A child prodigy, he entered Johns Hopkins's Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth and graduated high school by age 15. He studied at Brown University and briefly pursued a PhD in computer science at UC Berkeley before dropping out to join the 1990s tech boom. Immersed in Silicon Valley's libertarian culture, he became increasingly drawn to right-wing philosophy. The birth of a radical ideology Yarvin's intellectual transformation was heavily shaped by libertarian thinkers like Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard, whose distrust of empiricism and belief in rule-by-logic appealed to his analytical mind. In the mid-2000s, writing under the name Mencius Moldbug, Yarvin began articulating a new political philosophy that would become known as the 'neo-reactionary' or 'dark enlightenment' movement. At its core, Yarvin's ideology calls for the abolition of democracy, which he considers corrupt, inefficient, and irredeemable. He proposes replacing it with a CEO-style government led by a singular, powerful executive much like a monarch or corporate boss who rules without elections or opposition. Yarvin also supports a rigid social hierarchy, rejecting the notion of political equality in favour of order, elitism, and stratification. Key concepts: The Cathedral and patchwork rule One of Yarvin's most influential concepts is 'the Cathedral', his term for the network of universities, media, and bureaucracies that he believes enforces liberal ideology and suppresses dissent. According to Yarvin, these institutions maintain cultural dominance in the West and must be overthrown to enable true political reform. Yarvin also advocates for 'patchwork sovereignty', a model in which the world is divided into autonomous, city-sized 'sovereign corporations' (SovCorps). Each one would be run like a business, governed not by public vote but by executive fiat. In this vision, citizens would act as customers rather than voters free to exit but without democratic input or protections. Controversy, criticism, and legacy Yarvin is frequently criticised for promoting 'human biodiversity', a euphemism for race-based intelligence theories. Though he denies being a white nationalist, his work is widely condemned as providing intellectual cover for racist and elitist worldviews. His admiration for authoritarian regimes in China and Rwanda, which he describes as 'efficient,' has raised alarm about his disregard for civil liberties and human rights. Critics argue that Yarvin's work is a pseudo-intellectual justification for totalitarianism, masking authoritarian ambitions in dense, provocative prose. He often uses irony and satire to deflect responsibility for the more extreme interpretations of his writing, but the impact is real: his language, metaphors, and frameworks are now reflected in mainstream policies and talking points on the American right. Why he matters now Curtis Yarvin is no longer a marginal internet theorist. His anti-democratic, elitist vision is shaping real-world policy in one of the world's most powerful democracies. By calling for the destruction of democratic institutions, the elevation of an unelected elite, and the transformation of government into a hierarchical corporate structure, Yarvin has become the intellectual vanguard of a post-democratic future. In the second Trump administration, that future may no longer be hypothetical.
Yahoo
02-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Businessman Morris Talansky, witness in Ehud Olmert trial, passes away at 92
According to the verdict, Talansky transferred hundreds of thousands of dollars to former prime minister Olmert over several years. Jewish-American businessman Morris Talansky passed away on Monday evening at the age of 92. Talansky, who also goes by "Moshe," was known for serving as a key witness in the "Cash Envelopes" affair, in which former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was convicted of receiving money illegally while serving as mayor of Jerusalem. According to the verdict, Talansky transferred hundreds of thousands of dollars to Olmert over several years. At the trial, Olmert said in 2011 that he denied ever demanding cash bribes from Talansky, and added that the Jewish-American philanthropist's testimony at the trial claiming he lent Olmert tens of thousands of dollars was nothing but a made-up fantasy. Olmert responded by saying he received money from Talansky in the form of campaign donations. Olmert's defense later said in September of that year that the donations from Talansky were legal, after prosecutors alleged that the former prime minister failed to report the donations to the State Comptroller. The indictment said that Talansky gave Olmert the money as a personal loan, which the Israeli leader allegedly stashed away unreported to the tax authority. He was laid to rest in a cemetery in Beit Shemesh, according to Ynet. He was an Orthodox Jew from Long Island, New York. Both he and Olmert jointly founded the New Jerusalem Fund, a charity aimed at raising money for projects in Israel's capital. Yaakov Lappin, Ron Friedman, and Joanna Paraszczuk contributed to this report.
India Gazette
10-05-2025
- Politics
- India Gazette
Op Sindoor strikes kill Jaish Chief Masood Azhar's brother, the man behind IC-814 hijacking
New Delhi [India], May 10 (ANI): Indian Armed Forces launched a strike on May 7, targeting nine terror infrastructure sites in Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) under Operation Sindoor. The operation resulted in the elimination of key terror operatives, including Mohammad Yusuf Azhar, the brother-in-law of Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar, according to sources. According to sources, Yusuf Azhar, a key member of the proscribed terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), was responsible for handling weapons training for JeM operatives and was involved in multiple terrorist attacks in Jammu & Kashmir. Azhar was also involved in the conspiracy to hijack Indian Airlines aircraft IC-814 from Kathmandu (Nepal) to Delhi. A Red Corner notice number A-565/6-2000 was issued against him. Judea Pearl, father of Jewish-American Journalist Daniel Pearl, who was beheaded on camera in 2002 by terrorists, clarified reports of Azhar's death and his connection to his son's murder. 'I want to thank all of you who reached out to me today in response to the news that India's military forces have eliminated Abdul Rauf Azhar, a man described as 'responsible for the kidnapping and murder of my son, Daniel.' I want to clarify: Azhar was a Pakistani extremist and leader of the terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammed. While his group was not directly involved in the plot to abduct Danny, it was indirectly responsible. Azhar orchestrated the hijacking that led to the release of Omar Sheikh, the man who lured Danny into captivity. Sheikh was later sentenced to death but ultimately released from prison and kept in a 'Government Safe House',' Pearl said in a post on X. Former Journalist and colleague of Daniel Pearl at US-based Wall Street Journal, Asra Nomani, hailed India's recent Operation Sindoor in Bahawalpur, which she revealed the place used by Pakistan for its 'home-grown terrorists'. In a post on X, Nomani said that when India started its action against Pakistan, she had only one city's name that was Bahawalpur. 'I still have chills in my heart from when I first heard that town's name in late January 2002. For the 23 years since, I have reported on how Pakistani intelligence and military leaders have used that city, Bahawalpur, in the southern province of Punjab as a base for its homegrown domestic terrorists. When I heard India bombed training camps in Pakistan this week in Operation Sindoor, in response to a Pakistani terrorist rampage in India's Kashmir state, I had one city's name on my lips: Bahawalpur,' she said. 'My friend, WSJ reporter Danny Pearl, went to Bahawalpur in December 2001 with a notebook and a pen. Gen. Pervez Musharraf had just promised he was shutting down Pakistan's militant groups after a strike by Pakistan's terrorists against the Parliament in India, and Danny reported on the militant offices in Bahawalpur. He literally knocked on their doors,' Nomani recalled. Asra Nomani further mentioned that the militant training camps were open for business in Bahawalpur. 'On January 23, 2002, Danny left a home I had rented in Karachi, Pakistan, for an interview. I learned that Danny's fixer, Asif Farooqi, had arranged an interview for Danny through a man named 'Arif.' Danny didn't know it but Arif was the PR man for a militant group, Harkutul Mujahadeen. What was Arif's hometown? Bahawalpur. The police launched a manhunt to find Arif in Bahawalpur. We learned Arif's family faked a funeral for Arif. Police found him trying to board a bus in Muzaffarabad, across the country by Pakistan's border with Kashmir. It is another town India said it bombed terrorist training facilities,' the Journalist said. Asra Nomani recalled that Daniel was handed off to Omar Sheikh, a British-Pakistani dropout from the London School of Economics, radicalised in the 1990s in London mosques. 'Omar Sheikh was freed with Pakistani terrorist leader Masood Azhar, whose family was allegedly killed this week by India's air strike in Bahawalpur. Did Pakistan jail Omar Sheikh and Masood Azhar when they returned to Pakistan with a third terrorist, freed from India's jails? No. Pakistan's military and intelligence gave them safe passage. They used them as weapons against India. But in fact these domestic terrorists have waged war against innocents in Pakistan, like civil society activists, Benazir Bhutto, Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, schoolchildren and countless others,' Nomani said. 'Their extremism has ruined Pakistan, and Pakistanis can't blame America for creating the mujahideen to fight the Soviets in the 1980s,' she asserted. Hailing Operation Sindoor further, Asra said that India is doing a strategic attack on terrorist bases, which Pakistan itself should have eliminated. 'Pakistan has had a duty to dismantle those terrorist bases, for even the safety of its own people. What India is doing is a strategic attack on terrorist bases ,Pakistani military and intelligence should have eliminated but never did in their obsession to take over Kashmir,' she said. Bahawalpur is home to the Markaz Subhan Allah, a key Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) facility that has been active since 2015. Serving as the group's primary hub for training, indoctrination, and operations, it also functions as JeM's operational headquarters. The centre has been linked to multiple terror plots, including the February 14, 2019, Pulwama attack. It houses the residences of JeM founder Maulana Masood Azhar, de facto leader Mufti Abdul Rauf Asghar, Maulana Ammar, and other members of Azhar's family. (ANI)
United News of India
10-05-2025
- Politics
- United News of India
Op Sindoor: Bombing of JeM's Bahawalpur terror camp also brought some justice in Daniel Pearl's 2002 killing
New Delhi, May 9 (UNI) India's Operation Sindoor, the cross-border strikes that demolished nine terror camps located in Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir to avenge the Pahalgam terror attack, have also in a way brought some justice in the brutal 2002 beheading of Jewish-American journalist Daniel Pearl. Amid unconfirmed reports that senior Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) commander Abdul Rauf Azhar was killed in the May 7 cross-border strike on the Bahawalpur camp of the UN proscribed terror group, a picture doing the rounds on social media shows senior Pakistani army personnel, ISI officials and Muslim clerics at the funeral of the terrorists killed in the Indian strike. Judea Pearl, the father of Daniel Pearl, tagging the picture on X, poses the question: 'I wish these dignitaries could tell us: "What exactly are you mourning? What role models you wish your children to revere? What have you learned from this man?' Abdul Rauf Azhar was a co-conspirator in the 2002 abduction and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. As part of Operation Sindoor, to avenge the brutal killing of 26 men by Islamist terrorists linked to Pakistan, India launched airstrikes targeting nine locations across Pakistan and POK linked to the US-designated foreign terrorist organizations Hizbul Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Azhar's own organization, Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM). Azhar was one of the masterminds behind the 1999 hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight IC-814, which resulted in the release of three men held by India on terrorism charges, including Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was later convicted in the kidnapping and murder of Pearl. Azhar was also implicated in the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament and the 2016 attack on the Pathankot air base, both carried out by JeM. He assumed leadership of the group in 2007 and was listed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US Treasury Department in 2010. Daniel Pearl, an American Jewish journalist, was serving as the South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal. An investigative journalist, Pearl was reportedly scheduled to interview a religious leader as part of his research into Islamic extremism. He was abducted from his Karachi hotel on January 23, 2002, by Pakistani-British terrorist Omar Saeed Sheikh. On February 1, 2002, Pearl was brutally decapitated by Al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 Twin Tower attacks, and the video of the beheading was posted online, shocking the world. Azhar is the one who had brought Pearl to him. Daniel Pearl's father Judea, in a post on X, said: 'I want to thank all of you who reached out to me today in response to the news that India's military forces have eliminated Abdul Rauf Azhar—a man described as 'responsible for the kidnapping and murder of my son, Daniel.' 'I want to clarify: Azhar was a Pakistani extremist and leader of the terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammed. While his group was not directly involved in the plot to abduct Danny, it was indirectly responsible. 'Azhar orchestrated the hijacking that led to the release of Omar Sheikh—the man who lured Danny into captivity. Sheikh was later sentenced to death but ultimately released from prison and kept in a "Government Safe House". 'Thank you again for all your understanding and support, and let Danny's life remind us of who we are and what we stand for.' Asra Nomani, who was with WSJ and was a colleague of Daniel Pearl, posted on May 8 when she heard that India had bombed the Bahawalpur camp of Jaish-e-Mohammed founder Hafiz Saeed. 'Bahawalpur 'I still have chills in my heart from when I first heard that town's name in late January 2002. For the 23 years since, I have reported on how Pakistani intelligence and military leaders have used that city — Bahawalpur — in the southern province of Punjab as a base for its homegrown domestic terrorists. 'When I heard India bombed training camps in Pakistan this week in Operation Sindoor, in response to a Pakistani terrorist rampage in India's Kashmir state, I had one city's name on my lips: Bahawalpur. 'Did India bomb Bahawalpur? 'It did. I knew then India was striking actual hubs for Pakistan's homegrown domestic terrorism. 'Why do I know? 'My friend, WSJ reporter Danny Pearl, went to Bahawalpur in December 2001 with a notebook and a pen. Gen. Pervez Musharraf had just promised he was shutting down Pakistan's militant groups after a strike by Pakistan's terrorists against the Parliament in India, and Danny reported on the militant offices in Bahawalpur. 'He literally knocked on their doors. Dear Dr. @yudapearl, this story is a window into Danny's reporting enterprise. And because people will wonder: Danny was no cowboy. This was a calculated low-risk reporting trip because no journalist had been targeted for kidnapping in Pakistan. Around that time, Danny sent me an email: 'I'm anxious to go to Afghanistan, but I'm not anxious to die.' 'What did Danny learn? 'The militant training camps were open for business in Bahawalpur. 'On Jan. 23, 2002, Danny left a home I had rented in Karachi, Pakistan, for an interview. 'I learned Danny's fixer, Asif Farooqi, had arranged an interview for Danny through a man named 'Arif.' Danny didn't know it but Arif was the PR man for a militant group, Harkutul Mujahadeen. What was Arif's hometown? Bahawalpur. 'The police launched a manhunt to find Arif in Bahawalpur. We learned Arif's family faked a funeral for Arif. Police found him trying to board a bus in Muzaffarabad, across the country by Pakistan's border with Kashmir. 'It is another town India said it bombed terrorist training facilities. 'Arif had handed Danny off to Omar Sheikh,a British-Pakistani dropout from the London School of Economics, radicalized in the 1990s in London mosques. He went to Pakistan to train in these militant training camps. Then he kidnapped tourists in India. He was caught and jailed but on Dec. 31, 1999, he was traded for hostages in the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814. 'Omar Sheikh was freed with Pakistani terrorist leader Masood Azhar, whose family was allegedly killed this week by India's air strike in Bahawalpur. 'Did Pakistan jail Omar Sheikh and Masood Azhar when they returned to Pakistan with a third terrorist, freed from India's jails? 'No. Pakistan's military and intelligence gave them safe passage. They used them as weapons against India. But in fact these domestic terrorists have waged war against innocents in Pakistan, like civil society activists, Benazir Bhutto, Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, schoolchildren and countless others. 'Their extremism has ruined Pakistan, and Pakistanis can't blame America for creating the mujahideen to fight the Soviets in the 1980s. 'Pakistan has had a duty to dismantle those terrorist bases — for even the safety of its own people. What India is doing is a strategic attack on terrorist bases Pakistani military and intelligence should have eliminated but never did in their obsession to take over Kashmir. 'You will see parallels in the propaganda messages against India and Israel. Like Hamas, Pakistani terrorists crossed a border to kill. Now, Pakistani propagandists call themselves victims of their 'fascist' 'colonizer' neighbor.' 'According to my years of reporting on Danny's murder for the @DPearlProject. Abdul Rauf Azhar was not directly invoked in Danny's kidnapping and murder but he was very important because he freed Omar Sheikh who went on to kidnap Danny. 'Omar Sheikh organized Danny's kidnapping. A total of at least 27 Pakistani militants were involved in the plot, many foot soldiers from Masood Azhar's Jihad Inc. network. 'Only 4 men were convicted in the courts and essentially freed in 2020 by the courts despite our judicial efforts to keep them in jail. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who organized the 9/11 attack, allegedly beheaded Danny and he is in Guantanamo.' In a post on May 9, she writes: 'I will just lay out the facts so that everybody can understand the significance of the Bahawalpur attack and the killing of terrorist Abdul Rauf Azhar. 'Bottomline: Abdul Rauf Azhar freed from jail Omar Sheikh, the man who kidnapped Danny Pearl, but Azhar was not the man who murdered Danny. It's important Azhar was killed but I just want facts clear. 'Dec. 24, 1999 — Bahawalpur-based terrorist Abdul Rauf Azhar plotted the kidnapping of Indian Airlines Flight 814 from Kathmandu, Nepal, and diverted it to Kandahar, Afghanistan. His brother Ibrahim was a hijacker. 'Dec. 31, 1999 — In exchange for the release of the plane's passengers and crew, India released Abdul Rauf Azhar's terrorist brother, Masood Azhar, kidnapper Omar Sheikh and terrorist Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar from its jails. 'Jan. 23, 2002 — Omar Sheikh kidnapped Danny Pearl with a network of men. 'The Azhar brothers were not involved. Omar Sheikh hired foot soldiers in the militant groups. 'About Feb. 1, 2002 — Three men entered the compound where Danny was held captive, and they carried two weapons: a knife and camera. The mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, confessed to beheading Danny with his 'blessed right hand.' The other two men were allegedly his nephews. One, Ammar Al-Baluch, is on trial in Guantanamo for 9/11, with his uncle. 'The killing of Abdul Rauf Azhar is very significant because he freed the man who kidnapped Danny. I don't want his involvement to be stated incorrectly. KSM has yet to be held accountable for Danny's murder.' Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, asked about the connection of Bahawalpur and Daniel Pearl's killing, said today: 'Well, you are right. Bahawalpur is the headquarters of the Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist group that is proscribed by the United Nations. Its leader, Maulana Masood Azhar, is a proscribed individual. 'You brought up the connection with the tragic death, or killing of Daniel Pearl of the Wall Street Journal. The Jaish-e-Mohammad was in some way directly or indirectly responsible for the death of Daniel Pearl. 'But the real connection is through Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British-Pakistani jihadi who was held in India, but was finally released in 2000. He was the person who lured Daniel Pearl to his … eventually leading to his murder. So these are all obviously connected figures, connected individuals, connected institutions. And the attack on Bahawalpur, on that facility of the Jaish-e-Mohammad in Bahawalpur is, I would imagine, a fitting part of this unfortunate incident.' Bill Roggio, Senior Fellow and Editor of FDD's Long War Journal, wrote in an article on the Jaish leader's reported death in the Indian strike: 'The death of Abdul Rauf Azhar, if confirmed, is a welcome development and long overdue. Azhar, a U.S.-listed Specially Designated Global Terrorist who served as a senior leader in Jaish-e-Mohammad and took control of the group for a time after his brother Masood, its founder, went underground. Jaish-e-Mohammad has been implicated in numerous terror attacks in the region, including the kidnapping and brutal murder and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. JeM, which is backed by the Pakistani state, is a close ally of al-Qaeda. India did the world a favor and has provided a long overdue measure of justice to the Pearl family.' 'In many ways, Daniel Pearl's savage murder just five months after the 9/11 atrocities marked the beginning of a new wave of intense antisemitism driven by Islamist organizations. His final words — 'My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish' — resonate as loudly now, nearly a quarter of a century later, as they did back then,' said Ben Cohen, Senior Analyst and Rapid Response Director with FDD. UNI RN
Time of India
09-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
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. #Operation Sindoor India-Pakistan Clash Live Updates| Missiles, shelling, and attacks — here's all that's happening Pakistani Air Force jet shot down in Pathankot by Indian Air Defence: Sources India on high alert: What's shut, who's on leave, and state-wise emergency measures 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. ALSO READ: 'I still have chills...': US journalist hails Operation Sindoor in Pak's Bahawalpur where her colleague Daniel Pearl was beheaded 5 5 Next Stay Playback speed 1x Normal Back 0.25x 0.5x 1x Normal 1.5x 2x 5 5 / Skip Ads by by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Moose Approaches Girl At Bus Stop In Zamboanga Sibugay - Watch What Happens Happy in Shape Undo 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. Live Events -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. ALSO READ: 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."
