Pearl’s wife drops lawsuit against HBL

KARACHI—The wife of Daniel Pearl, the US journalist murdered here in 2002, has dropped a lawsuit against Habib Bank regarding transfer of funds to a charity allegedly involved in her husband’s killing.
Mariane Pearl filed the case in July, saying the bank had transferred funds to an Islamic charity which she alleged was linked to her husband’s death. Habib Bank has already denied the allegations. Daniel Pearl was abducted in Karachi in January, 2002, and later beheaded. He was working for the Wall Street Journal on a story about Islamist militants.
British-born militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh has been sentenced to death in Pakistan for his role in the abduction and murder. The US says the man alleged to have masterminded the 11 September, 2001, attacks in America, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has told investigators that he carried out the actual beheading.
Ms Pearl had included both men and al-Qaeda in the lawsuit. Ms Pearl informed the US court dealing with the case the other day that she was dropping the action.—Online
In the original court documents filed in New York, Mrs Pearl had alleged that the Karachi-based Habib Bank knowingly conducted financial transactions on behalf of the al-Rashid Trust which, she said, was linked to “terrorist groups”.