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February 10, 2021
ISLAMABAD: On 5 February 2002, around midday, Deputy Inspector General (Police) Javed Noor was at his official residence in Lahore when he received a call from the then provincial Home Secretary Brigadier (r) Ejaz Shah. He informed Noor about some ‘significant progress’ made regarding the Daniel Pearl’s kidnapping case.
Brigadier Shah said Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, the main suspect in the case at that time, had surrendered. Until then no one was aware that Pearl had, in fact, been killed. Shah wanted the accused handed over to the police through due legal process. Police, on the contrary, had already rounded up his elderly grandfather Sheikh Muhammad Ismail and paternal uncle Tariq Ismail along with a few women of the family from Mohni Road and Johar Town areas in Lahore – ostensibly as part of practice to help investigation process.
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ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court of Pakistan Monday issued notices to Ahmed Umer Saeed Sheikh, Attorney General for Pakistan, and the Advocate Generals of all the provinces and Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) in an appeal against the release of the accused murderers of Daniel Pearl, Bureau Chief of Wall Street Journal in Pakistan.
A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandial and comprising Justice Sajjad Ali Shah and Justice Muneeb Akhtar conducted hearing of the Sindh government appeal not to release the accused in pursuance of the Sindh High Court order.
Advocate General Sindh Salman Talib-ud-Din adopted before the court that so far a division bench of the SHC has not passed the detailed judgment of its impugned order 24-12-2020. He submitted that one of the findings of the SHC order is that the respondents (accused) are not ‘Enemy Alien’ under the Preventive Detention Order read with Article 10 of Constitution.