Pearl, a writer for The Wall Street Journal, was abducted and killed in 2002 in the southern port city of Karachi while he was working on an investigation into…
The Sindh High Court has ordered the release of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three others who have been imprisoned for the past 18 years in connection to the murder case of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. The court had already acquitted Fahad Naseem, Sheikh Adil and Salman Saqib, while Saeed Sheikh had been sentenced to seven years in jail. The court said the orders issued by the civilian authority were null and void.
