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Habib Bank Sued Over Alleged Ties to Terrorists
By Brian Orsak
printPakistan's largest bank illegally provided financial services for groups tied to al-Qaeda and the Taliban, the widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday. According to a nine-count complaint filed in U.S. federal court for the Eastern District of New York, Habib Bank Ltd. of Karachi backed two related organizations tied by the U.S. Treasury Department to the kidnapping and killing of Pearl in 2002. The bank "knowingly and intentionally" maintained bank accounts for Al Rashid Trust, later called Akhtar Trust International, a group deemed a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Group by the...
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