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
US Secretary of State Tony Blinken raised concerns about the recent Pakistan Supreme Court’s ruling acquitting American journalist Daniel Pearl’s killers. Blinken spoke with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi over telephone on Friday regarding the issue.
The US move comes just days after the Supreme Court of Pakistan ordered the release of Omar Saeed the main suspect in the Danial Pearl murder case.
Pearl, the late 38-year-old South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, was abducted and beheaded while he was in Pakistan in 2002. At the time, Pearl was investigating a story on the links between the country s powerful spy agency ISI and al-Qaeda.
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