National
February 10, 2021
ISLAMABAD: On 5 February 2002, around midday, Deputy Inspector General (Police) Javed Noor was at his official residence in Lahore when he received a call from the then provincial Home Secretary Brigadier (r) Ejaz Shah. He informed Noor about some ‘significant progress’ made regarding the Daniel Pearl’s kidnapping case.
Brigadier Shah said Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, the main suspect in the case at that time, had surrendered. Until then no one was aware that Pearl had, in fact, been killed. Shah wanted the accused handed over to the police through due legal process. Police, on the contrary, had already rounded up his elderly grandfather Sheikh Muhammad Ismail and paternal uncle Tariq Ismail along with a few women of the family from Mohni Road and Johar Town areas in Lahore – ostensibly as part of practice to help investigation process.
Imran Khanâs Close Aides Giving Special Treatment To Terrorist Omar Saeed Sheikh Who Murdered Journalist Daniel Pearl
Source: New Indian Express
Terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh is being provided comfortable facilities in the Hyderabad Central Jail allegedly at the behest of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khanâs close aide Brigadier Ijaz Ahmed Shah, the
Sunday Guardianreports.
Sheikh is under detention along with his three associates for murdering American âThe Wall Street Journalâ journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.
However, the Sindh High Court acquitted Sheikh from the murder charges and commuted his jail sentence to seven years. The court stated that the terrorist had already spent 18 years in jail and hence his prison term would be considered completed.