ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday adjourned the hearing on the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl until January 27 after the counsel for main accused Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh.
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday adjourned the hearing on the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl until January 27 after the counsel for main accused Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh.
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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday adjourned the hearing on the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl until January 27 after the counsel for main accused Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh concluded his arguments. A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice Mushir Alam and comprising Justice Sardar Tariq Masood and Justice Yahya Afridi heard the criminal petition filed by the government of Sindh as well as parents of Daniel Pearl for leave to appeal under Article 185(3) of the Constitution against the impugned judgment passed by the Sindh High Court on April 2. Concluding his arguments, Mahmood A Sheikh, counsel for the Britishborn Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh sought acquittal of his client as he claimed that there was no evidence against him and the case of prosecution was a pack of lies. He argued that there was delay in the FIR and that the case laws favour his client. He contended that the date of arrest of the accused persons was contradictory an
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday adjourned the hearing on the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl until January 27 after the counsel for main accused Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh.
SC again hears Daniel Pearl murder case today
National
January 21, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) was told on Wednesday that there was no evidence submitted by the prosecution that shows any link of the accused persons in the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl.
While, counsel for parents of Daniel Pearl, filed an application comprises of some news clippings that allegedly link Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the mains accused in the case, to militants groups. The counsel also submitted a letter, allegedly written by Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh from jail to Sindh High Court to decide his case at the earliest.