Pearl Trial Delayed Over Lawyer’s Absence
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PAKISTAN
A Pakistani judge adjourned for two more days the trial of Muslim militants in the kidnapping and slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
The trial had been set to resume Monday after the Supreme Court in the morning denied a defense request for a stay pending a hearing on its petition to move the trial from Hyderabad back to Karachi, where Pearl disappeared Jan. 23.
But the judge later adjourned the case until Wednesday because the lawyer for three of four defendants, Rai Bashir, could not make it back from Islamabad, the capital, where he had argued before the high court.
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