Pak SC orders release of Daniel Pearl murder accused

Islamabad, Jan 28 : The Pakistan Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the key accused in the 2002 kidnap and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl.
The apex court dismissed the Sindh government’s appeal against the Sindh High Court’s (SHC) decision to overturn Sheikh’s conviction, reports Dawn news.
In its the verdict, the three-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Mushir Alam also directed to release the suspect.
Only one member opposed the decision.
Thursday’s development comes a day after Sheikh admitted in the Supreme Court that he had played a “minor” role in the brutal killing 19 years ago, Dawn news reported.
The 38-year-old South Asia bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal was doing research on religious extremism in Karachi when he was abducted in January 2002.