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A taxi driver told a Pakistani court on Monday that he saw Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, prime accused in the abduction and murder of The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, 'whisk away' the journalist in a white car.
Abbas testified he picked Pearl up from a house in Karachi and drove him to a location outside a hotel. A white car then drove up and Abbas testified that Saeed 'called Pearl and Pearl got into the car, which whisked him away'.
Earlier, before the same court, Sheikh and three co-defendants pleaded innocent to the charges of murder, kidnapping and terrorism while objecting at being tried by Pakistan's 'British secular court system'.
Speaking to a news agency, Khawaja Naveed Ahmed, representing Sheikh and the co-defendants said, "He (Sheikh) pleaded not guilty and said 'I don't recognise this law and I only accept Shariat (Islamic) law'."
The trial remains closed to journalists and the public.
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