An islamic militant who took photographs of US journalist Daniel Pearl after his January 2002 kidnapping in Pakistan and before his murder has been arrested, an intelligence official said today. Militant Malik Tassaduq, a member of banned Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, was captured last month but his arrest was kept secret for investigation, the official said.‘‘Tassaduq is the man who took pictures of Pearl in captivity. These pictures were later e-mailed to newspapers,’’ the official said.Pearl, the Wall Street Journal’s South Asia correspondent, was abducted on January 23, 2002, in Karachi while he was investigating Islamic militancy in Pakistan.A week later his captors e-mailed newspapers photographs of him accompanied by death threats and demands for the release of Pakistani and Taliban prisoners captured during US military operations in Afghanistan. — (PTI)
