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Pakistani Supreme Court tosses charges against man convicted in murder plot against Daniel Pearl | Print this article Pakistan’s Supreme Court has tossed all charges against the man believed to be behind the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was captured and beheaded in 2002 as he investigated Pakistani terrorist groups in the wake of 9/11. Pearl, a 38-year-old Jewish American, was in Karachi following leads on al Qaeda and Richard Reid, the British-born “Shoe Bomber. After being abducted, Pearl was beheaded on video by al Qaeda operatives on Feb. 1, 2002. In April of last year, a Pakistani court overturned the conviction of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was found guilty of the kidnapping and murder of Pearl. Sheikh had his death sentence voided by a two-person judicial panel, which tossed most of the charges against the British-born man and reduced his sentence to seven years. Sheikh has been behin ....
Getty Images Updated 6:29 p.m. ET Pakistan s Supreme Court ordered the release on Thursday of a British national who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002. The decision comes nearly two decades after the journalist s body was found in a shallow grave in the Pakistani port city of Karachi. He was killed five months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. A videotape showing the aftermath of Pearl s beheading was sent to the U.S. Consulate in Karachi and posted on the Internet, a portent of the cinematic violence committed by Islamic extremist groups in the coming years. ....
Thursday, January 28, 2021 by Abdul Sattar (NPR) Wall Street Journal newspaper reporter Daniel Pearl, who was killed by Islamic militants in Pakistan in 2002. The British-born militant Omar Sheikh was sentenced to death for his murder, but Pakistan s top court on Thursday ordered his release. Stay tuned in to our local news coverage: Listen to 90.7 WMFE on your FM or HD radio, the WMFE mobile app or your smart speaker say “Alexa, play NPR” and you’ll be connected. Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered the release on Thursday of a British national who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. ....
1.28.21 8:14am Pakistan s Supreme Court ordered the release on Thursday of a British national who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The decision comes nearly two decades after the journalist s body was found in a shallow grave in the Pakistani port city of Karachi. A videotape showing Pearl s beheading, send to the U.S. consulate, came in the context of the war on terror after Sept. 11, 2001. Pearl s murder became a portent for the cinematic violence committed by Islamic extremist groups in the years after. The 2-1 decision was on an appeal by the Pearl family and the Pakistani government against the ruling of a provincial court last April that overturned Sheikh s murder conviction and the convictions of three accomplices. ....
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 British-born 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. ....