US journalist Daniel Pearl, beheaded by terrorists in Pakistan, gets justice via Operation Sindoor. What happened to him?

India's precision strikes codenamed 'Operation Sindoor' launched in retaliation to barbaric Pahalgam terror attack which killed 26 innocent civilians, also brought long-overdue justice to Jewish-American journalist Daniel Pearl. His brutal murder in Pakistan in 2002 had shocked the world.

The attack under destroyed what was the headquarters of the Jaish-e-Mohammad where training and indoctrination of recruits was done for the terrorist organisation. The attack on the Bahawalpur camp is closely connected to a global shockwave-inducing event that followed shortly after the US declared its war on terror: the execution of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who had been investigating 9/11 attacks.

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What happened to Daniel Pearl? 10 points you need to know:

-Daniel Pearl was an American journalist who worked for The Wall Street Journal. In 2002, he was abducted while reporting in Pakistan and later on died at the hands of the captors.

-A videotape obtained by investigators in Pakistan had indicated that Pearl was killed at some point in the four weeks since he was kidnapped, according to Wall Street Journal.

-Daniel Pearl disappeared in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on January 23, 2002 after embarking for what he believed was an interview with a prominent figure in the country's Islamic movement.

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-Four days later, a group calling itself "The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty" sent an e-mail, accompanied by pictures of the then 38-year-old Pearl in chains. One of the pictures showed him with a gun to his head.

-In their second mail, the he group called for the release of Pakistani nationals being held by the US at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the wake of the military campaign in Afghanistan, as well as Pakistanis being detained in the US as terrorism suspects. It also called for the US to turn over F-16 fighter jets purchased by Pakistan in the late 1980s but never delivered because of U.S. sanctions related to Islamabad's nuclear-weapons program.

-The captors in the e-mail threatened to kill Pearl within 24 hours if the demands weren't met. The US and Pakistani governments undertook an intensive effort to find his captors, which ultimately led to the arrest of the apparent mastermind of the kidnapping -- Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, according to WSJ.

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-According to prosecutors, Sheikh lured him to a meeting with an Islamic cleric. The two had built up a relationship discussing concerns about their wives, who were both pregnant at the time.

-He had been researching links between Islamist terrorist activity in Karachi and Richard Reid, who tried to blow up a passenger plane using bombs hidden in his shoes. Later on, a video showing the Daniel Pearl's beheading by terrorists in Pakistan was sent to the US consulate in Karachi.

-Pearl was a 12-year veteran of the Journal, who worked in Atlanta, Washington, London and Paris before he moved to Bombay to cover South Asia two years ago. For much of years of his journalistic life, he dedicated himself to explaining the Arab and Islamic worlds to Wall Street Journal readers.

-Born in Princeton, N.J., Daniel Pearl graduated in 1985 from Stanford University. Before joining the Journal in 1990, Pearl worked for several newspapers in Massachusetts, once winning an American Planning Association Award for a five-part series on land use.