LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Pakistan and the U.S. appear to be nearing an agreement on turning over the prime suspect in the kidnapping of Daniel Pearl. Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh is in custody right now in Karachi. But, as CNN's Chris Burns explains, several details have to be resolved first.</s>CHRIS BURNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Pressures on Pakistani authorities as they consider a U.S. request to extradite the key suspect in the Daniel Pearl murder case, a threat from the same group that claimed to have kidnapped Daniel Pearl. A -- an anonymous caller says that if authorities go ahead with these proceedings toward extraditing Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, that they will bomb or rocket the investigators' office. At this -- this came the same day that U.S. Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain came to visit Karachi. As she spoke with U.S. and Pakistani investigators on the case, we asked her if she believed that the extradition was imminent. She said that it is subject to how the investigation progresses. She met the day before with President Pervez Musharraf, who also gave, perhaps, tentative agreement to an extradition. However, under conditions. These conditions being that authorities would like to continue and finish the investigation. Perhaps find the body of Daniel Pearl, find the murder weapon and arrest more suspects, perhaps even try Sheikh Omar. Also, pressures against the government from the street, that those we spoke to, most of them here in Karachi, say that they with rather see Sheikh Omar tried here in Pakistan, not extradited. At the same time, Pervez Musharraf has a lot on his hands. He's trying to crack down on Muslim militant groups and also try to reorganize the intelligence organization, the ISI, that is linked to some of these militant groups. So if Pervez Musharraf, the president, is not trying to delay this extradition process, perhaps, at least, he might not speed it up. Chris Burns, CNN, Karachi, Pakistan.
Pressures Mount as Pakistan Considers Extradition of Sheikh Omar