The murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In February 2002 a videotape was released by extremists in Pakistan showing the murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter. Daniel Pearl had been investigating the 9/11 attacks. He was kidnapped in Karachi while on his way to interview a radical cleric. In 2015 Farhana Haider spoke to Asra Nomani, Daniel Pearl's friend and colleague.

PHOTO: Daniel Pearl and Asra Nomani in 1995. (Credit: Asra Nomani)

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0:00.0	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.
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0:36.0	Hello, you're listening to the witness history podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:46.0	I'm Frahana Hytha.
0:48.0	Today I'm taking you back to February 2002
0:52.0	when Islamist extremists in Pakistan released a videotape of the
0:56.8	murder of kidnapped American journalist Daniel Pearl. In 2015 I spoke to one of Daniel Pearl's close friends.
1:05.0	What had happened is just unfathomable.
1:09.0	It can crush a human spirit.
1:12.0	Danny trusted the people who he went to visit.
1:16.3	He was a good man and he got betrayed by people with diabolical intentions.
1:23.0	Asron O'Mani first met Daniel Pearl
1:25.2	when they were both reporters for the Wall Street Journal
1:27.8	in Washington.
1:28.8	Danny Pearl was a great friend of mine.
1:31.5	He was somebody that I met in the Washington Bureau of the Wall Street Journal. It was 1993. I had been in DC for a year and Danny was an incredible breath of fresh air.
1:43.0	And the two friends' paths were to cross again
1:45.0	when they both worked in Pakistan.
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