Last month, in yet another outrage, Pakistan’s Supreme Court freed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the man responsible for luring Daniel Pearl to his death, from prison and sent him to a halfway house. The judges had connections to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), reported SpyTalk. Two of the three Pakistani Supreme Court jurists who freed […]
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Pakistan SC maintains status quo for a day in Daniel Pearl case
Citing tremendous global implication and grave emergency as well as serious consequences, the top government lawyer on Monday requested the Supreme Court to suspend December 24, 2020, Sindh High Court (SHC) order in the murder of Wall Street Journal’s South Asia bureau chief Daniel Pearl, reported Dawn. The SHC in its […]
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Pakistan Supreme Court extends interim detention order of Daniel Pearl murderers’ by a day
Pakistan’s Supreme Court (SC) on Monday extended the interim detention order of the accused involved in the murder case of American Journalist Daniel Pearl by one day, reported The Express Tribune. The three-judge bench of SC led by Justice Umar Ata Bandial heard the government’s petition wherein a notice to the attorney general of Pakistan was […]
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Pakistan lawyers seek review of acquittals in Daniel Pearl murder
Lawyers have filed a last-ditch attempt to overturn the acquittal of a British-born militant convicted of masterminding the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, a government prosecutor said today. Pakistan’s top court yesterday dismissed an appeal against a lower court’s decision to clear Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and […]