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The White House statement came after Pakistan s Supreme Court upheld the acquittal of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who had been convicted of masterminding the brutal murder of Pearl, the South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, by jihadists.
Slamming the Pakistani court s decision to acquit journalist Daniel Pearl s killer Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, Joe Biden s administration has said it was outraged Thursday after Pakistan s top court upheld the acquittal and ordered the release of the terrorist convicted of masterminding the 2002 beheading of US journalist Daniel Pearl.
The US is outraged by the Pakistani Supreme Court s decision, Biden s chief spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters, underscoring the uneasy alliance between Washington and Islamabad, which has fractured many times over Islamist militancy.