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Pak SC Orders Security To Rest House Where Omar Sheikh Will Stay; Permits Family Access
Pakistan Supreme Court ordered that the government should provide full security to the rest house where terrorist Omar Sheikh will be shifted from the jail.
Despite growing outrage over the Pakistan Supreme Court s order to release terrorist Omar Sheikh, it directed that he should be shifted from jail to a rest house within the next 2-3 days. This comes even as US Secretary of State Tony Blinken spoke to Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi about ensuring accountability for Sheikh, the main accused in Daniel Pearl case. In 2002, Pearl, the 38-year-old South Asia Bureau of The Wall Street Journal, was kidnapped in Karachi and beheaded while he was pursuing a story on the links between ISI and Al-Qaeda.
Law department has issued instructions to the [Sindh] prosecutor general to file the review, says Murtaza Wahab
Slain American journalist Daniel Pearl. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
KARACHI:
The Sindh government on Friday filed a review petition against the Supreme Court’s (SC) verdict of acquitting all accused persons involved in American journalist Daniel Pearl’s murder.
The Sindh Prosecutor General has filed three criminal review petitions against majority judgment. The provincial government has also requested the SC to pass a restraining order regarding release of accused persons forthwith.
The review petition states that the offences created a sense of fear and terror in the minds of the public at large, both nationally and internationally as such all the accused were guilty of the charges levelled against them on all counts.
Law department has issued instructions to the [Sindh] prosecutor general to file the review, says Murtaza Wahab
Slain American journalist Daniel Pearl. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
KARACHI:
The Sindh government on Friday filed a review petition against the Supreme Court’s (SC) verdict of acquitting all accused persons involved in American journalist Daniel Pearl’s murder.
The Sindh Prosecutor General has filed three criminal review petitions against majority judgment. The provincial government has also requested the SC to pass a restraining order regarding release of accused persons forthwith.
The review petition states that the offences created a sense of fear and terror in the minds of the public at large, both nationally and internationally as such all the accused were guilty of the charges levelled against them on all counts.
SC orders release of Daniel Pearl murder case accused
A three-judge bench of the apex court led by Justice Mushir Alam announced the short order
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (C, pictured 2002), who had been convicted over the 2002 killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl, was ordered released on December 24, 2020. AFP
ISLAMABAD:
A three-member bench of the Supreme Court through a majority verdict on Thursday acquitted all the accused involved in the murder case of American journalist Daniel Pearl, ordering release of the four men languishing in jails for the past 18 years.
Sitting on the bench, Justice Yahya Afridi, while dissenting the majority order, partly allowed the Sindh government appeal in terms that Ahmed Omer Shaikh and Fahad Nasim were convicted under sections 365-A and 120-B, PPC and section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.