Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider said efforts to enlist the help of Maulana Masood Azhar, the imprisoned leader of Jaish-e-Mohammed, had failed. Azhar was in custody before Pearl's abduction, but authorities hoped he might know how to contact Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, the suspected mastermind of the kidnapping. "We asked him if he would call and he said, 'I have nothing to do with Sheikh Omar. I don't know where he is,'" Haider told reporters Sunday.
No surprise there. Azhar probably thinks it's a spiffy idea to kidnap a few Infidels and kill them. |