As I have been reporting repeatedly, Omar Sheikh, presently under detention in connection with thekidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl, the US journalist, had told the Karachi Police during his interrogationthat during one of his visits to Kandahar last year he had come to know of the plans of Al Qaeda to launch theterrorist strikes of 9/11 against the US and had mentioned this to Lt. Gen.Ehsanul-Haq, the presentDirector-General of the ISI, who was then Corps Commander, Peshawar. Gen.Pervez Musharraf and Ehsanul-Haq arevery close personal friends. It is, therefore, inconceivable that Haq would not have mentioned this toMusharraf. Why did Haq and Musharraf keep silent on the information and did not immediately warn the USabout it?