In 2002, The Wall Street Journal s Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and beheaded in Pakistan
Islamabad:
The Sindh High Court in Pakistan on Thursday has directed the release of terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, Fahad Naseem, Sheikh Adil and Salman Saqib in connection with the kidnapping and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl.
According to Daily Pakistan newspaper, the Sindh High Court also ordered putting the names of accused Ahmed Omer Saeed Shaikh and others in the exit control list (ECL). The accused have been in jail for the last 18 years and ordered the accused to appear as and when the court summons them.
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Pakistan can deny all it wants, but there s substantiated evidence that the country is in bed with terrorists. Now, Pakistan s actions suggest the country is no longer trying to deny or even hide its intentions to harbor terrorists and even safeguard them. On Thursday, a Pakistan court ordered the release of Omar Saeed Sheikh and declared that he had no connection in the abduction and brutal murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl.
The Sindh High Court declared the detention orders of one of the three primary accused in the beheading of Pearl as null and void. Furthermore, it even ordered the immediate release of Saeed Sheikh along with three other accused, Fahad Naseem, Sheikh Adil and Salman Saqib.
The detention order is struck down, said Faisal Siddiqi, the Pearl family lawyer.
Sheikh will be freed until the appeal is completed, he said, but will be returned to prison if the family is successful in overturning the acquittal.
Sheikh was sentenced to death and three others were sentenced to life in prison for their role in the plot.
Daniel Pearl, 38, was abducted, his throat cut and then he was beheaded, before the footage was sent to the American Embassy
But a lower Pakistani court in April acquitted him and three others, a move that stunned the US government, Mr Pearl s family and journalism advocacy groups.
The Sindh High Court on Thursday has directed to release terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, Fahad Naseem, Sheikh Adil and Salman Saqib in connection with the ab