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KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - 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 U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.
FILE PHOTO: A portrait of the Wall Street Journal s reporter Daniel Pearl stands with a candle at the altar at Fleet Street s journalists chapel St Brides Church prior to a memorial service in London March 5, 2002. REUTERS/Ian Waldie IW/NMB/File Photo
The United States has expressed concern over the ruling and top U.S. diplomat Antony Blinken repeated a call for accountability in his first phone call with Pakistan’s foreign minister on Friday.
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Court orders release of man accused in Daniel Pearl’s death
AP, ISLAMABAD
The Pakistani Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release of a Pakistani-British man convicted and later acquitted in the beheading of US 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 Sindh Province, where Sheikh is being held, said the government had exhausted all options to keep him locked up an indication Sheikh could be free within days.
Judea Pearl, father of US journalist Daniel Pearl, who was killed by terrorists in 2002, speaks in Miami Beach, Florida, on April 15, 2007.
ISLAMABAD (AP) Pakistan is scrambling to manage the fallout from a decision by the country s Supreme Court to free the Pakistani-British man accused in the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl.
The Sindh provincial government on Friday filed a review petition, asking the same court to revisit its decision.
But even the lawyer for the Pearl family has said a review petition has a slim chance of succeeding because it is heard by the same judges who voted to free Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh. The case appears to have fallen apart because of the contradictory evidence produced during Sheikh s original trial in 2002 and the decision by the prosecution at the time to try him and three other accused co-conspirators together. According to the Pearl family lawyer, Faisal Siddiqi, this means that doubt about the guilt of one translates into a doubt about all.