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2020-12-02 India-Pakistan
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Appeal opens against reversal of Briton’s conviction in Daniel Pearl killing
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[IsraelTimes] Pak court to hear case against Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, initially sentenced to death for Jewish news hound’s 2002 kidnapping and beheading.
An appeal against the controversial acquittal of a British-born man convicted of murdering American journalist Daniel Pearl opened at a Pak court on Tuesday.
A Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
court sparked outrage earlier this year when it overturned the 2002 murder conviction of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh,
... a busy lad, the brilliant, violent Pakistani-Brit hooked up with the jihadi crowd at the London School of Economics, dropping out to join the jihadis in Bosnia — reportedly on orders from MI-6. After a break to run Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan, he was jailed in India in 1994 for kidnapping four Western tourists in Kashmir on orders from Pakistan’s ISI. In 1999 Saeed Sheikh and two leaders of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen were traded for 155 passengers and crew of a hijacked Indian Airlines flight diverted to Kandahar, after which he wandered down to his Al Qaeda buddies in Pakistan... and acquitted three other men connected to the case.
That’d be Fahad Naseem, Sheikh Adil, and Salman Saqib, about whom nothing else seems to be known. Saud Memon, accused of providing the place where Pearl was held before his death, died mysteriously in 2007, while Qari Hashim Ali was freed in 2014 when the court ruled there was not enough evidence to hold him.... Pearl’s parents and prosecutors lodged an appeal at Pakistain’s Supreme Court in May, putting the release of the four men on hold.
"The case has finally opened, it will be decided whether they should be convicted or acquitted. The case is heading to a final verdict," Faisal Siddiqui, the lawyer representing Pearl’s parents, told AFP.
The appeal, which has been repeatedly postponed in recent months, will hear opening arguments in the capital Islamabad on Wednesday.
Sheikh had been on death row for Pearl’s murder but was acquitted in April by the Sindh High Court which instead sentenced him to seven years for kidnapping — paving the way for him to walk free after already serving 18 years.
Three co-defendants who were serving life sentences in connection to the case were acquitted.
Pearl, who was Jewish, was South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal when he was kidnapped in Karachi in January 2002 while researching a story about Islamist hard boys.
A graphic video showing his decapitation was delivered to the US consulate nearly a month later.
Prosecutors said Sheikh lured Pearl into a trap by promising to arrange an interview with an Islamic holy man who police believed was not involved in the conspiracy.
Pearl’s killing stirred international condemnation of Pakistain’s military government just as it was remaking its image after years of backing the Taliban
 ...Arabic for students ...
in neighboring Afghanistan. 
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