Court orders release of those accused in Daniel Pearl killing 1 minute read
Islamabad, Dec 24 (efe-epa)- The Sindh High Court in Pakistan on Thursday declared null and void a warrant for the pre-trial detention of the main accused in the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, and ordered his release.
“The court ordered to release Khalid Sheikh and three other accomplices,” the prosecutor general of the southeastern province of Sindh, Fiaz Shah, told EFE.
Shah said they will appeal the decision before the Supreme Court, which in September had temporarily suspended the release of Sheikh and his three alleged accomplices in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of the correspondent of American newspaper Wall Street Journal.