MEA Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava speaking at the virtual press briefing on Thursday. Photo/ANI
Daniel Pearl case: India terms Pak SC order to release terrorist Ahmed Omar travesty of justice ANI | Updated: Jan 28, 2021 22:33 IST
New Delhi [India], January 28 (ANI): The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday termed the Pakistan Supreme Court s decision to release American journalist Daniel Pearl s murderer Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh as a travesty of justice .
Speaking at the weekly press briefing via video conferencing, Anurag Srivastava, MEA Spokesperson, said that Pakistan has continued with its terror funding emanating from territories under its control . It is a travesty of justice not to find Omar Saeed guilty of any charges in this heinous act of terror. Our position on Pakistan taking sustained credible and irreversible action against terrorism and terror funding emanating from territories under its control remains unchang
Dr. Judea Pearl, father of American journalist Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002, speaks in Miami Beach, Fla., in 2007. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
ISLAMABAD (AP) Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered the release Thursday of a Pakistani-British man convicted and later acquitted in the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.
The court also dismissed an appeal of Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh’s acquittal filed by Pearl’s family and the Pakistani government.
A minister in the Sindh province where Sheikh is being held said the government had exhausted all options to keep him locked up an indication that Sheikh could be free within days. The “Supreme Court is the court of last resort,” Murtaza Wahab, Sindh’s law minister, told The Associated Press.
Pakistan SC orders release of prime suspect in American journalist Daniel Pearlâs murder
Pakistanâs Supreme Court ordered the release of British-born al-Qaeda militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the prime accused in the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002 in Karachi.
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Pakistan s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release of British-born al-Qaeda militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the prime accused in the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002 in Karachi.
The apex court dismissed the Sindh provincial government s appeal against the Sindh High Court s (SHC) decision to overturn the conviction of Sheikh for the beheading of Pearl, the 38-year-old South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal.
Supreme Court of Pakistan Orders Release of Omar Sheikh
Supreme Court of Pakistan Orders Release of Omar Sheikh
File photo of Omar Sheikh. Aamir Qureshi AFP
Primary accused in killing of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl had a day earlier admitted to ‘minor’ role in the brutal 2002 assassination
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday dismissed an appeal filed by the Sindh government against a Sindh High Court decision to overturn the murder conviction of Omar Sheikh, ordering his immediate release.
The short verdict issued by a three-member bench headed by Justice Mushir Alam was opposed by one member. It came just a day after Sheikh admitted for the first time that he had played a “minor” role in the 2002 assassination of