Pakistan Appeals Supreme Court Acquittal In Daniel Pearl Murder Case
On Friday, Pakistan s Sindh provincial government submitted a petition to the country s Supreme Court to review its decision to acquit and free the men convicted of kidnapping and beheading American journalist Daniel Pearl, as reported by
Al Jazeera. British national Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three accomplices were acquitted on Thursday, more than 18 years after they were found guilty in 2002 of murdering the
Wall Street Journal reporter. Thursday s decision sparked outrage in the United States and caused heightened tension between the courts and Sindh government, which had kept the four men imprisoned through emergency powers.
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.
Allow US to prosecute Daniel Pearl s killers: White House to Pakistan
The apex court on Thursday cleared Sheikh and his three Pakistani accomplices in the case of all the charges, ordering that Sheikh and others be immediately freed from jail.
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An American flag flies at half-staff above the White House in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021. (Photo | AP) By PTI
WASHINGTON: Voicing outrage over the acquittal of those involved in the brutal murder of Daniel Pearl in 2002, the White House has asked Pakistan to expeditiously review its legal options, including allowing the US to prosecute al-Qaeda terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and other suspects to secure justice for the American journalist s family.
Pearl, a Wall Street Journal scribe, was abducted and beheaded while investigating a story on the links between the ISI and Al-Qaeda in Pakistan in 2002
• Parents of slain journalist term ruling ‘travesty of justice’
• White House firm on securing justice for Pearl’s family
ISLAMABAD: By a majority of two to one, the Supreme Court acquitted on Thursday Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh, the principal accused in murder of Wall Street Journal’s bureau chief for South Asia Daniel Pearl, by extending the benefit of the doubt to him.
Headed by Justice Mushir Alam, a three-judge Supreme Court bench also comprising Justice Sardar Tariq Masood and Justice Yahya Afridi ordered that Mr Sheikh, Fahad Naseem Ahmed, Syed Salman Saqib and Shaikh Muhammad Adil be set free forthwith, if not required to be detained in connection with any other case. The detailed reasons for the judgement will come later.