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2021-01-30 India-Pakistan
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Pakistan seeks review of acquittals in Daniel Pearl murder case
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[Guardian] Pakistan’s government has appealed to the supreme court to review its decision to free a British-born Islamist and three others convicted of beheading the American journalist Daniel Pearl, a day after the US expressed “deep concerns” over the ruling.
| By any chance did we threaten their boodle? |
A panel of three judges of the court on Thursday acquitted Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh
| ...also in our archives as Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh and Ahmed Omar Sheikh. He’s the Pakistani-Brit who has thus far spent eighteen years in various Pak government safe houses successfully avoiding either being hanged or transferred to the U.S. for his not-minor role in Israeli-American Daniel Pearl’s heinous murder, a restful change after his eventful youth. A brilliant but violent lad, the jihadi crowd at the London School of Economics funneled him to the jihadis in Bosnia — reportedly on orders from MI-6. After a break to run Al Qaeda’s Afghan training camps, India jailed him in 1994 for kidnapping Western tourists in Kashmir for Pakistan’s ISI. He and two senior Harkat-ul-Mujahideen emirs were traded for the passengers and crew of a hijacked Indian Airlines plane in 1999, after which he wandered down to Karachi to hang with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s (KSM) gang. This may yet turn out to have been a fatal error... |
and three other Islamists,
| ... Fahad Naseem, Sheikh Adil, and Salman Saqib, about whom little 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.... |
who had been convicted in 2002 on charges of kidnapping and murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter. The court ordered the men to be released immediately if not required in any other case.
The government in southern Sindh province filed a petition asking the top court to review its decision, said the Pearl family’s lawyer, Faisal Siddiqi, and a government prosecutor.
“We have filed three review petitions,” said the prosecutor, Faiz Shah, explaining that the petitions would seek a reversal of the acquittal and the reinstatement of Sheikh’s death penalty.
“Being aggrieved of and dissatisfied with the judgment, the petitioner files an instant criminal review petition for leave to appeal on matters of law, facts and grounds,” the petition read.
The release orders would stand irrespective of the review petition, said the provincial law minister, Murtaza Wahab.
“We haven’t received the release orders yet,” he said, adding that the Islamists were not likely to be freed over the weekend, as it usually takes some days for court orders to be sent to prison authorities.
Pearl, 38, was investigating Islamist militants in Karachi after the September 11 attacks on the US when he was kidnapped. A video of his beheading emerged weeks later. 
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