December 25, 2020 KARACHI/WASHINGTON: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday struck down preventive detention of British nationality holder Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh and three others who were continuously detained for the last nine months under the anti-terrorism law despite their acquittal in the US journalist Daniel Pearl’s kidnapping and murder charges by the appellate court. The court ordered none of the detenue shall be placed under any preventive detention order by the federal or provincial governments or by any law enforcement agencies without permission of the court. The court, however, ordered that names of the detainees shall be placed under the Exit Control List until such time as state appeals against their acquittal have been decided by the Supreme Court.