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Pearl film to premiere at Karachi festival

KARACHI: A movie based on the murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl will premiere at a film festival in Karachi where he was abducted nearly five years ago, organisers said on Wednesday.

“Infinite Justice” by British-Pakistani filmmaker Jamil Dehlavi is the star attraction at the Sixth KaraFilm Festival in Karachi, which runs from December 7.

“This is the first time a film on Pearl will be screened in Pakistan,” festival organiser Hasan Zaidi said.

The movie stars Kevin Collins as the Jewish-American investigative reporter and Raza Jaffery as a terror mastermind who kidnapped him to secure the release of prisoners from Guantanamo Bay.

It is a loose, fictionalised version of the ordeal of Pearl, a Wall Street Journal correspondent who was abducted and beheaded in Karachi in January 2002, while researching a story about Islamic militants.

A British-born Islamic militant, Ahmed Saeed Omar Sheikh, was arrested and sentenced to death for the killing, while his three co-accused were given life imprisonment.

Pakistan in September barred filming of “A Mighty Heart”, an Angelina Jolie film based on the novel of Mariane Pearl’s book about her husband. That film is now being shot in India. afp

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