Shoe-bomber Richard Reid, who tried to blow up a flight from Paris to Miami in December 2001, and Zacharias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker on 11 September, both visited the mosque for a time.
Mr. Pearl was kidnapped in Karachi, the capital of Sindh, in 2002 while researching an article on Richard Reid, who had been arrested for an attempt to blow up an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami using explosives in his shoes.