KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Thursday directed counsel to submit copies of Supreme Court’s orders on state appeals against the acquittal of Ahmed Omer Sheikh and three others in the.
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America’s rivers are changing color and people are behind many of the shifts, a new study said. One-third of the tens of thousands of mile-long river segments in the United States have noticeably shifted color in satellite images since 1984. That includes 11,629 miles that became greener, or went toward the violet end of the color spectrum, according to a study in this week’s journal Geographical Research Letters. Some river segments became more red. Only about 5% of U.S. river mileage is considered blue a color often equated with pristine waters by the general public. About two-thirds of American rivers are yellow, which signals they have lots of so
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Pearl s family and the Pakistani government have appealed the acquittal to the Supreme Court, which resumed its hearing this week. A decision is expected before the end of the month.
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Mehmood A. Sheikh, a defense lawyer for British-born Pakistani Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, speaks to journalists after an appeal hearing in the Daniel Pearl case, in Islamabad.
Islamabad: The lawyer for a Pakistani man convicted and later acquitted in the 2002 killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl said Wednesday that he will petition the Supreme Court to free his client.
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the key suspect in Pearls slaying, remains in custody in a jail in the southern port city of Karachi, despite the acquittal.
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The lawyer for a Pakistani man convicted and later acquitted in the 2002 killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl said Wednesday that he will petition the Supreme Court to free his client.
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the key suspect in Pearl’s slaying, remains in custody in a jail in the southern port city of Karachi, despite the acquittal. Pearl’s family and the Pakistani government have appealed the acquittal to the Supreme Court, which resumed its hearing this week. A decision is expected before the end of the month.
Sheikh’s lawyer, Mehmood A. Sheikh, has been trying to get his client, who has been on death row for 18 years, freed since the acquittal.