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<p>MULTAN, Pakistan - An Islamic militant accused of helping to plan the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was arrested at a bus station in central Pakistan on Thursday, police said.</p> <p>The suspect, Qari Abdul Hai, who allegedly had close ties with the Taliban, is the chief of a banned militant group condemned by the United States as a terrorist organization, police said. The group has been accused of involvement in bombings at public places in Pakistan.</p>

MULTAN, Pakistan — An Islamic militant, suspected of helping plan the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, told police interrogators he had Pakistani politicians on a hit-list and was organizing homicide attacks, an official said Friday. The suspect, Qari Abdul Hai, the alleged leader of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militant group, was arrested from a bus station in Muzaffargarh, 60 miles west of Multan, on Thursday. He was about to board a bus for the southern city of Karachi, where Pearl was kidnapped and later killed. Hai came to Muzaffargarh about 12 days ago to allegedly organize suicide attacks,...