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.