KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - An Islamic militant sentenced to death in the killing of journalist Daniel Pearl was transferred Thursday to a new prison for security reasons, a police official said.
British-born Ahmed Omar Sheikh was flown by helicopter from a jail in Hyderabad to Central Prison in Karachi, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to make media comments. He gave no further details.
Pearl, a Wall Street Journal correspondent, was researching a story on Islamic militancy in Karachi when he disappeared in January 2002. Four months later, his beheaded body was found on the city's outskirts.
In July 2002, a court convicted four Islamic militants in his killing. The three besides Sheikh received life imprisonment and are being held in Hyderabad, about 95 miles northwest of Karachi.
A court is to hear appeals later this month from all four convicts. The government is still seeking the death penalty for the three other militants. Other suspects in the case remain at large.
