KARACHI, 12 December 2005 — The law enforcement agencies are looking for a man, who has for quite sometime been harassing the former owner of the farmyard where the remains of slain Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl were found in May 2003.
Mujtaba Tayyab, the son of Hakim Tayyab Ali of Tayyabi Dawakhana, who is also a close relative of a judge of the Accountability Court, complained to the provincial authority that the man, Fahad Khan Siddiqui, claiming to be an inspector from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), had been harassing him and his family.
The man, complained Mujtaba, had been demanding they provide him records of the farmyard. Tayyab said that his late father had sold the land in 1989 and since then it had changed hands several times.
When contacted, FIA officials said there was no employee with the agency in the Karachi zone with such a name.
The remains of Pearl were dug up from the farmyard in the jurisdiction of Khawaja Ajamir Nagri police station on May 17, 2002 three months after his murder in February 2002.
