Four terrorists convicted of kidnapping and beheading Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl are RELEASED including ‘killer’ on death row in Pakistan
Pakistan s Supreme Court today ordered release of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who had been on death row, Fahad Naseem, Syed Salman and Muhammad Adil
Islamist militants were cleared of murder last year but they were held for appeal
Sheikh had been sentenced to death after being found guilty of abduction and murder of Daniel Pearl, 38, in 2002
Founder of modern Lahore’s great-great-granddaughter becomes US senator
Kesha Ram took oath as a US state senator on Jan 6 SAMAA | Web desk - Posted: Jan 27, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 months ago SAMAA | Web desk Posted: Jan 27, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 months ago
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Kesha Ram, the great-great-granddaughter of Sir Ganga Ram, hopes to carry forward his legacy as she has has become the first woman of colour to take oath as a state senator in Vermont, US.
Sir Ganga Ram is considered the founder of modern Lahore. He was an Indian civil engineer and architect who served as the executive engineer of Lahore at the end of the 19th century.
January 10, 2021
Khadim Hussain Rizvi alone wasn’t responsible for polarising the society; in fact, he was a product of a polorised society
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The sudden death of firebrand cleric and chief of the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), Allama Khadim Hussain Rizvi, came as a shock to his supporters and detractors alike.
Beginning his career as the
khateeb at a mosque in Lahore, Rizvi rose to prominence within the span of half a decade and turned his party into a political force to reckon with. His funeral, perhaps one of the largest in the history of Pakistan, has laid the foundation of a problematic legacy. It has also alarmed the liberal elite who fear a resurgence of religious extremism in Pakistan.
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In a 2012 lecture at the Institute of Advanced Studies, the late Danish-American historian Patricia Crone described Omer Saeed Sheikh as an “acculturated native” who had rebelled against his adopted cultural mores.
Sheikh is a British citizen who was arrested in Pakistan for his role in the kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002. Sheikh was born in London to Pakistani parents who had migrated to England in 1968. They quickly adopted British cultural norms and established a successful clothing business there. Sheikh was enrolled at a prestigious private school in London and was then sent to Lahore’s equally prestigious Aitchison College.
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.