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Shristi Pandey

Pak SC Report: Daniel Pearl murder case

On January 30, 2021: The Pakistani Federal Govt chose to officially join Sindh govt audit request against the Supreme Court judgment on the vindication of all blamed people engaged with the murder of Daniel Pearl. Govt will record move application for the constitution of bigger seat to hear survey request.


Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was an American writer for The Wall Street Journal. He was captured and later executed by terrorists and oppressors in Pakistan. Pearl was filling in as the South Asia Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal, situated in Mumbai, India. He was abducted when he went to Pakistan as a feature of an examination concerning the supposed connections between British resident Richard Reid (known as the "shoe bomber" ) and al-Qaeda. Pearl was slaughtered by his captors.


Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheik, a British public of Pakistani root, was condemned to death by hanging for Pearl's kidnapping and murder in 2002 yet his conviction was toppled by a Pakistani court in the mid year of 2020. In March 2007, at a shut military hearing in Guantánamo Bay, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, an individual from al-Qaeda, asserted that he had actually guillotined Pearl. Analysts have additionally associated Al-Qaeda part Saif al-Adel with the abducting.




Three suspects were caught by February 6, 2002, after the IP address of the individuals who sent the payoff email was followed by police in Karachi. The captures were completed after examination by Pakistani criminologist Mir Zubair Mahmood, helped by a FBI PC expert. The man answerable for the arranging and execution of the hijacking, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheik, given up to a previous ISI official, Brig. Ijaz Shah, who hid Sheik's whereabouts from the Karachi police for seven days. Sheik had been in an Indian jail regarding 1994 Kidnappings of Western sightseers in India. In December 1999, Sheik was delivered by the Indian government in return for the protected arrival of travellers on board seized Indian Airlines Flight 814.


On March 21, 2002, in Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheik and three different suspects were accused of murder as far as it matters for them in the capturing and murder of Daniel Pearl. On April 2, 2020, Sheik's murder conviction was toppled by a Pakistani court, and his capital punishment was diminished to seven years' the ideal opportunity for his grabbing conviction, beforehand served. In his book too, In the Line of Fire, President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf expressed that Sheik may have been a specialist of MI6, and sooner or later may have become a twofold agent.


On March 10, 2007, Khalid Sheik Mohammed guaranteed obligation, for the homicide of Daniel Pearl. He is a supposed Al Qaeda usable answered to be third in order under Osama canister Laden, brains of the 2001 assaults.


He said, "I executed with my favoured right hand the top of the American Jew Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan."

On March 19, 2007, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheik's attorneys referred to Khalid Sheik Mohammed's admission as a component of an allure with regards to their customer. Again on March 19, 2013, and then finally on April 24, 2019, two last suspects were captured in connection with Pearl's murder,( and were also responsible for several terrorist attacks inside Pakistan) were in police custody.




The court, this week, be that as it may, expanded the between time confinement request of principle blamed Sheik and his helpers - Fahad Naseem, Sheik Adil and Salman Saqib-by one day to hear the public authority's situation looking into the issue. During the consultation on Monday, the principal legal officer of Pakistan mentioned the Supreme Court to suspend the choice to deliver the blamed with the goal that he could contend the case in detail. The peak court dismissed the solicitation, as indicated by a report in The Express Tribune. The Supreme Court on Thursday requested the arrival of the blamed by excusing advances against their absolution by the Sindh High Court. The judgment was impugned by Pearl's family as "a total crime of equity".


The Sindh government on Friday recorded a survey request in the pinnacle court against the quittance of Sheik and his three assistants. However, in light of the pressure mounting from the US and the UN, the attorney general of Pakistan (AGP) on Saturday announced that the federal government will file an application before the apex court to be allowed to join as a party in the proceedings and further seek review and recall of the court's January 28 judgement.

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