His parents’ counsel in the US journalist Daniel Pearl’s murder case on Wednesday informed Pakistan’s top court that the main conspirator in Pearl’s murder is an international terrorist. The lawyer also cited an order of the Supreme Court of India in support of his claim.
38-year-old Daniel Pearl, the South Asia head of Wall Street General, was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan in 2002 while he was investigating a relationship between Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI and Al Qaeda.
British-origin Al Qaeda leader Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three of his accomplices were sentenced after pleading guilty to Pearl’s kidnapping and murder. The Express Tribune report quoted an affidavit filed by lawyer Faisal Siddiqui that in view of the current petitions, the fact is clear that the main conspirator of these crimes, Ahmed Omar Sheikh, was an international terrorist who was also involved in other kidnapping cases for ransom. Was.
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Siddiqui said that along with an order of the Supreme Court of India, the defense’s own evidence also supports these facts. Therefore this reference to international terrorism is important in the decision of these existing petitions.
In April, a two-member bench of the Sindh High Court overturned Sheikh’s death sentence and sentenced him to seven years imprisonment. The bench also acquitted three of Sheikh’s associates serving life imprisonment in the Pearl murder case. A bench of three Supreme Court judges is hearing petitions challenging the High Court’s decision by the Sindh government and Pearl’s family. Advocate Siddiqui requested the Supreme Court to quash the verdict of Sindh High Court and accused it of ignoring the evidence in the judgment.
