Dedicated to Daniel Pearl

The father of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was executed in Pakistan by Muslim terrorists in 2002, discussed Muslim-Jewish relations last night with a former Pakistani diplomat.

Judea Pearl, who is Jewish, and Akbar Ahmed, a former Pakistani high commissioner to Great Britain, expanded their exchange to include the state of the world before a packed house of 400 at the University of Richmond.

Sitting in easy chairs, Pearl and Ahmed portrayed themselves as two grandfathers concerned about the dangerous world their grandchildren are inheriting.

But the larger implications of their discussion was not lost on religious leaders representing both Jewish and Muslim interests, nor on audience members from a variety of faiths and points of view. Read more

Five years after the kidnapping and murder of a Wall Street Journal reporter in Karachi, Pakistan, a group of Georgetown students will take on the task of uncovering what really happened.

This fall, the School of Continuing Studies will offer a seminar on investigative journalism that will give students the opportunity to look into who actually killed Daniel Pearl. Pearl was murdered in 2002 while doing investigative work for an article on Richard Reid, who attempted to blow up a plane the year before using explosives hidden in his shoe.

Al Qaeda operative Khalid Sheikh Mohammed admitted last month to Pearl�s murder during a U.S. military tribunal hearing at Guantanamo Bay. According to Asra Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who was a close friend and colleague of Pearl, Pearl�s father has doubts about that being true, and she believes that a further investigation is still necessary. Read more