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A court on Monday gave police three more days to question a militant suspected of video recording the beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl because he was not cooperating with interrogators, officials said. Muhammad Sohail, who was caught last week in Karachi, is also suspected of involvement in two failed assassination attempts in 2003 against President Pervez Musharraf. He also had a role in a 2002 bombing in Karachi that killed 11 French engineers and a court sentenced him to death a year later for his role in that violence, Reuters reported. Police want to question Sohail about the killing of Pearl in January 2002 and the assassination attempts on President Musharraf, but he has refused to answer questions, said Muhammad Younas, a Karachi police investigator.
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Police brought Sohail to the courtroom in the back of a van with a hood over his head. The hood was removed for the hearing but he did not speak while in court. Last week, a Karachi court gave police five days to question Sohail and on Monday his interrogation was extended by three more days, Younas said. "He is a hardened suspect. He did not cooperate during interrogation," he said. |
