When #OmerSaeedSheikh was on the run after #DanielPearl& #39;s murder, he apparently surrendered after hiding at Pakistan& #39;s current interior minister #BrigIjazShah& #39;s place who was #Musharraf& #39;s man back then. Some say Brig Shah offered him a deal. Is today& #39;s verdict part of that deal?

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Sheikh gave himself up, not to police, but to his old ISI contact, Ijaz Shah, by now the home secretary of the Punjab. For the next week, he was held in secret by ISI to the consternation of investigators in Karachi & FBI agents. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jul/16/pakistan.rorymccarthy">https://www.theguardian.com/world/200...

Other aspects of Pearl& #39;s kidnapping appeared unusual. One of kidnappers& #39; demands was for delivery of several F-16 fighter jets bought by Pakistan frm US in early 1990s, a deal that was later cancelled. No militant grp in Pakistan has ever before shown any interest in F-16 deal.