US concerned as Pakistan releases man charged in Daniel Pearl killing
The judge said Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh should be moved to a comfortable residential environment
02 February 2021 - 15:20
Islamabad — Pakistan’s supreme court has ordered the release from prison of a British-born militant who was convicted in the kidnapping and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl by al-Qaeda and Pakistani Islamist militants in 2002.
In a decision that is expected to draw criticism from the US, the court recommended that Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh be transferred to a government safe house as a stepping stone to his full release after spending 18 years on death row...
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