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Pakistan is launching a cybercrimes unit, partly because it had to rely on U.S. investigators to trace e-mails sent by the kidnappers of slain journalist Daniel Pearl. 
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Iftikhar Ahmad, spokesman for Pakistan's Interior Ministry, said the newly formed National Response Center for Cyber Crimes "will play a key role in the days to come in tracing those terrorists who often use the Internet or prepaid telephone cards to communicate messages." 
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"The importance of this special wing was felt when Daniel Pearl was kidnapped, and his captors started sending e-mails to newspapers," Ahmad said. 
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The FBI traced the e-mails, and police captured suspects, but they weren't able at the time to stop the killing of Pearl who disappeared in 2002.
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Source: <a href="http://www.oaklandtribune.com/"><i>www.oaklandtribune.com</i></a>
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<a href="http://www.crime-research.org/eng/archives.html"><b>Cybercrime News Archive</b></a>
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