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.