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US ‘outraged’ over Pakistan SC acquitting Daniel Pearl’s killers: White House
The White House has expressed âoutrageâ over the Pakistan Supreme Courtâs decision acquitting those involved in the sensational kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl in 2002 and said that the judgement is an affront to terrorism victims everywhere. Pearl, the 38-year-old South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, was abducted and beheaded while he was in Pakistan investigating a story in 2002 on the links between the country s powerful spy agency ISI and al-Qaeda.
Pakistan s Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed appeals against the acquittal of British-born al-Qaeda terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh in the kidnapping and murder case of Pearl and ordered his release, a judgement denounced by the American journalist s family as a complete travesty of justice.
Pearl’s family in ‘complete shock’ as the Islamist terrorist who beheaded the Jewish Wall Street Journal
reporter is allowed to walk free.
By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel
The family of murdered American journalist Daniel Pearl was in “complete shock” Thursday after Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered the release of the Islamist terrorist who beheaded the Jewish journalist, the
Wall Street Journal reported.
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was convicted of the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Pearl, a reporter for the
Wall Street Journal, but was ordered released by a panel of three judges in the Islamic country.
The court decision was “effectively clearing him of wrongdoing in the case,” the paper reported, upholding a lower court ruling that overturned Sheikh’s kidnapping, terrorism and murder convictions. Sheikh has spent the last 18 years in prison for the crimes and the judges ordered him released from jail immediately, but Pakistani authorities have kept him b
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Daniel Pearl murder: Pakistan regional government appeals acquittal
The Wall Street Journal reporter was abducted and decapitated in Pakistan in 2002. The Supreme Court s decision to free the man convicted over his killing has caused an outcry in the US.
The three-judge panel in the Supreme Court upheld the acquittal of a lower court
A Pakistani regional government on Friday appealed to the Supreme Court to review its decision to acquit the main suspect in the 2002 beheading of US journalist Daniel Pearl, officials said.
The top court on Thursday cleared Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh and his three co-accused of the reporter s killing, ordering their immediate release after nearly two decades in jail.
Pakistan Lawyers Seek Review Of Daniel Pearl Murder Acquittals
01/29/21 AT 1:59 PM
Pakistani prosecutors filed a last-ditch attempt Friday to overturn the acquittal of a British-born militant convicted of masterminding the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, as the new US secretary of state directly pressed on the case.
Pakistan s top court on Thursday dismissed an appeal against a lower court s decision to clear Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three others over the killing, after nearly two decades in jail.
The decision extended a legal tug of war between the Sindh provincial government who kept the group behind bars using emergency powers and the courts.