: Pak SC orders release of Daniel Pearl murder accused #IndiaNEWS #International Islamabad, Jan 28 | The Pakistan Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the key accused

Pak SC orders release of Daniel Pearl murder accused #IndiaNEWS #International
Islamabad, Jan 28 | The Pakistan Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the key accused in the 2002 kidnap and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl.
The apex court dismissed the Sindh governments appeal against the Sindh High Courts (SHC) decision to overturn Sheikhs conviction, reports Dawn news.
In its the verdict, the three-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Mushir Alam also directed to release the suspect.
Only one member opposed the decision.
Thursdays development comes a day after Sheikh admitted in the Supreme Court that he had played a minor role in the brutal killing 19 years ago, Dawn news reported.
The 38-year-old South Asia bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal was doing research on religious extremism in Karachi when he was abducted in January 2002.
A graphic video showing his beheading was delivered to the US consulate a month later.
Subsequently, Sheikh was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to death by a trial court.
In its April 2, 2020, order, the SHC had overturned his conviction .
The provincial high court had also acquitted three other men namely Fahad Naseem, Sheikh Adil and Salman Saqib, who had been earlier sentenced to life imprisonment by an Anti-Terrorism Court in Karachi.
Source: IANS
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