Islamabad: Pakistan has been threatened by Washington’s threat of the acquittal of Al Qaeda terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three of his associates in the kidnapping and murder case of American journalist Daniel Pearl News. Islamabad has again filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the acquittal of the culprits.
America threatened Pearl acquittals
The US has expressed ‘displeasure’ over the decision of the Pakistani Supreme Court to acquit the accused in the case, after which this petition has been filed only hours later. Speaking to the media, Sindh’s prosecutor general Fiyaz Shah has confirmed that a petition has been filed seeking revision of the verdict and requested the court to withdraw the acquittal order.
Pak government has appealed in this petition
The Sindh government has requested the court to revise its verdict and restore the sentence of the accused and for this, some specific errors have been pointed out in the order. The Sindh government has filed this review petition in the Supreme Court. Significantly, the appeal was made by the apex court on Thursday after the Sindh High Court ruled that the accused were acquitted. The court has also ordered the release of UK-born Sheikh in this sensational case.
Pearl was murdered in 2002
Pearl (38), the South Asia bureau chief of ‘The Wall Street Journal’, was kidnapped in Karachi in 2002 when he was gathering information for a news report on relations between Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI and Al Qaeda . He was then beheaded and murdered. Sheikh and his three associates were convicted in the case and sentenced.
America said – his country wants justice for the Pearl
The White House expressed ‘displeasure’ over the order of the Pakistani Supreme Court acquitting the accused in the kidnapping and murder case of American journalist Daniel Pearl. Subsequently, the US Embassy in Pakistan on Friday shared US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s statement that his country wants justice for Pearl.
