Back in 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and brutally murdered in Karachi, Pakistan. Pearl was probing links between Pakistani militant…
18 years after Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl’s killing, Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Omar Sheikh, the prime suspect in the case, to walk free. The order was issued by a three-judge SC bench headed by Justice Mushir Alam. One member of the bench opposed the decision. Sheikh, who was found responsible for luring Pearl to a meeting before abducting him, was initially sentenced to death. Three other co-conspirators of Sheikh, on the other hand, were sentenced to life imprisonment. They are also likely to be acquitted as they have completed their respective sentences.
