Islamabad: The Supreme Court of Pakistan has ordered the release of Ahmad Umar Saeed Shaikh, an American journalist Daniel Pearl (US Journalist Danial Peral), guilty of murder. According to Al Jazeera’s report, a government lawyer said that a panel of three judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan has ordered the release of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh. He was convicted of killing American Pearl. According to Pakistani law, under the sections under which Sheikh was convicted, there is a provision of even a death sentence.
Sheikh, 47, is a British-Pakistani. Sheikh is the main accused in the abduction and murder of Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter in 2002. The court ordered the acquittal after Sheikh was convicted. After which the US had strongly opposed the decision. The Pakistan government, after the court’s order for acquittal, had spoken of not releasing Sheikh and filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the verdict.
Pearl’s family had also filed a petition in the court regarding Sheikh’s release. While upholding the decision of his release, the court has also rejected the appeal by Pearl’s family to acquit Sheikh. Al Jazeera’s report states that Shaikh’s lawyers said, “He was made a sacrificial goat for murder and was sentenced on insufficient evidence.”
Pearl, 38, the South Asia bureau chief of ‘The Wall Street Journal’, was investigating the relationship between Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI and the terrorist organization Al Qaida in 2002, and in this regard, he was in Pakistan Were. At the same time, he was beheaded and murdered after being kidnapped.
Earlier, the government of Singh province of Pakistan had said that it had decided not to release Sheikh and his three associates on the basis of the court’s September 28 order. In this case, in April, the Sindh government and the family of the late journalist had appealed against the Sindh High Court’s decision to make Sheikh free of charge.
