As pressure mounts on Pakistan, Blinken calls up Qureshi about terrrorist Saeed’s acquittal

By Arul Louis New York, Jan 30 : Pressure mounted on Pakistan to act against terrorist Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken calling up Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi about Pakistan Supreme Court quashing his conviction in the murder US journalist Daniel Pearl.
“The Secretary reinforced US concern about the Pakistani Supreme Court ruling and potential release of these prisoners’ responsible for Pearl’s murder, State Department Spokesperson Ned Price said about the call on Friday.
They “discussed how to ensure accountability for convicted terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and others responsible for the kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl,” he said.
Soon after Saeed’s acquittal was announced on Thursday, President Joe Biden’s Spokesperson Jan Psaki, Blinken and Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson said the US could try him.
Wilkinson said that the US was ready to take custody of Saeed and bring him to trial in the US.
British-born Saeed was charged in a US court in 2002 with hostage-taking in connection with the murder of Pearl that year and the kidnapping of an American tourist, Bela Nuss, in India in 1994.