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US state secretary offers to prosecute Omar Sheikh following SC acquittalInternational 2021-01-30, by Editor Comments Off 2
In his first statement on Pakistan as the United States secretary of state, Antony Blinken said America was ready to prosecute Omar Saeed Sheikh the principal accused in the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in US courts, a day after he was acquitted by the Supreme Court.
On Thursday, a three-judge Supreme Court bench acquitted Sheikh by extending the benefit of the doubt to him and ordered his release. The Supreme Court issued the verdict on a petition filed by the Sindh government and Pearl’s parents against a Sindh High Court (SHC) order for Sheikh’s acquittal and immediate release.
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Pakistan's government on Friday appealed to the Supreme Court to review its decision to free a British-born Islamist and three others convicted of beheading US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002. The United States has expressed concern over the ruling and top US diplomat Antony Blinken repeated a call for accountability in his first phone call with Pakistan's foreign minister on
The statement came after the Pakistani Supreme Court earlier this week ordered the release of Sheikh, who was convicted in 2002 of orchestrating the abduction and killing of Wall Street Journals South Asia bureau chief Daniel Pearl. The statement was made ahead of Blinken s phone call to Foreign Minister S Jaishankar.