Islamist absolved of Daniel Pearl killing to exit death row 2 minutes read
Islamabad, Feb 2 (efe-epa).- The Supreme Court of Pakistan ordered the transfer from death row to a safe house of an Islamist acquitted of the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, while studying the preventive detention order against him.
Salman Talibuddin, the attorney general of Sindh Province, where Omer Sheikh was tried, explained to EFE that the Supreme Court has agreed to keep the Islamist “under custody” but out of jail.
Sheikh will thus be transferred to a government “safe house” in the coming days.
“The Supreme Court allows us to keep him in custody while (it) is hearing the appeal,” said Talibuddin.
Daniel Pearl murder case: Supreme Court orders immediate removal of Omar Sheikh from death cell
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Supreme Court orders prime accused in Daniel Pearl murder case be shifted to a government rest house
SC had halted release of prime accused in Daniel Pearl murder case a day earlier
Last week, the Sindh government had filed a review petition in the apex court against the acquittal of Omar Sheikh
The Supreme Court has ordered the immediate removal of Ahmed Omar Sheikh, accused in the murder case of American journalist Daniel Pearl, from the death cell.
A day earlier, the apex court
Blinken calls Pakistan FM Qureshi, seeks accountability in Daniel Pearl murder case
Blinken calls Pakistan FM Qureshi, seeks accountability in Daniel Pearl murder case
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken urged Pakistan to explore all legal options to ensure that the killers of Pearl are brought to justice.
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Washington: US Secretary of State Tony Blinken has spoken over phone with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and discussed the accountability of convicted terrorists responsible for the murder of Daniel Pearl, according to the State Department.
Pearl, the 38-year-old South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, was abducted and beheaded while he was in Pakistan investigating a story in 2002 on the links between the country’s powerful spy agency ISI and al-Qaeda.
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Passport of American journalist Daniel Pearl, who was murdered in Karachi, Pakistan in 2002, from a display at the Newseum, Washington, D.C.
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On January 28, Pakistan’s top court ruled that the key suspect in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl should be freed.
In its finding, the Supreme Court upheld the Sindh High Court’s earlier decision to free Omar Saeed Sheikh and three other suspects accused of murdering Pearl.