Across Asia: Pakistan

Pearl's killer moved

A British-born Islamist militant sentenced to death for the killing of US journalist Daniel Pearl has been moved from Hyderabad to a prison in Karachi due to concerns over his security, officials said yesterday. Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, or Sheikh Omar, was sentenced to death in 2002 for his role in the killing of Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped in Karachi in January 2002. Pearl was later found beheaded.