10 Facts About Saud Memon

Saud Memon was a Pakistani businessman from Karachi dealing in yarn and textiles.

Saud Memon was wanted by law-enforcement agencies in the Pearl case for supposedly providing the place where Pearl was beheaded and subsequently buried.

Saud Memon was named by several arrested members of Harakat ul-Mujahedeen Al-Almi as their chief financial backer and was believed to have fled Pakistan.

Saud Memon's sister said he was not connected to Al Qaeda or Pearl's death.

Five days after he was freed, Saud Memon appeared in a wheelchair before the Supreme Court in Islamabad.

In December 2014, when the United States Senate Intelligence Committee published its Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture, it confirmed suspicions that Saud Memon was held in the CIA's network of black sites, prior to transfer to Pakistan's secret torture prisons.

However, Saud Memon's name was not on the final official lists of Guantanamo captives, released on 15 May 2006.

Saud Memon's death was attributed to complications related to meningitis and tuberculosis according to Dr Ali Azmat Abidi of the hospital.

Saud Memon knew senior Al-Qaeda people, and was moving equipment and supplies.

The Wall Street Journal quoted an unnamed Pakistani official who said that Saud Memon was held in the American Bagram Theater detention facility, and that he was already in poor condition, when the Americans repatriated him to Pakistani custody.