Pakistan court overturns convictions of those imprisoned for Daniel Pearl murder

[Raj-Hindustani]

Pakistan court overturns convictions of those imprisoned for Daniel Pearl murder

Pakistani police surround handcuffed Omar Saeed Sheikh as he comes out of a court in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on March 29, 2002. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images)
By Shaiq Hussain
April 2, 2020 at 3:51 p.m. GMT+5:30


ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A regional Pakistani court on Thursday overturned the convictions of the men involved in the killing of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.

The ruling by two judges on the High Court of Sindh province can still be appealed to Pakistan’s Supreme Court.

“As per the court’s judgment, Omar Saeed Sheikh has been found guilty of kidnapping and not of murder. The accused was in jail for 20 years,” the defendants’ lawyer Khawaja Naveed told The Washington Post.

Saeed had been sentenced to death for Pearl’s murder, but now with just a seven-year sentence for kidnapping, he could be released, given the 18 years he has already served.


The three other men convicted with Saeed — Fahad Naseem, a computer expert; Salman Saqib, a religious activist; and Sheikh Adil, a police officer — were ordered released by the court.

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The kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Pearl in January 2002 shocked the world at the time. He had been in Pakistan researching the connection between a radical Islamic preacher and Richard Reid, who attempted to blow up an airliner with explosives in his shoes.

Pearl was told he was meeting with the radical cleric when instead he was kidnapped by militants organized by Saeed, a British-born Pakistani. According to the Center of Public Integrity’s Pearl Project, 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed then took over the operation and filmed the beheading of Pearl for al-Qaeda propaganda purposes.


The murder has been seen as the beginning of a trend targeting journalists in conflict zones.

In 2014, the radical Islamic State group filmed the beheadings of a number of its hostages, including journalist James Foley.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...700a92-74ab-11ea-ad9b-254ec99993bc_story.html

 

[Areesh]

Useless Pakistani courts

A shame for the nation

 

[American Pakistani]

Shameless courts. Very disappointed.

 

[JackTheRipper]

These Judges are Monkeys...

 

[Haris Ali2140]

Ab bas sirf Balochistan high court reh gai hay jis nay koi chawal marni hay.

 

[Hamza913]

Whilst everyone calls this shameless, I think we have to remember exactly how the US protected Raymond Allen Davis after his rampage.

After they did that, I don't think they can complain when we do this to the people who killed one of their citizens.

 

[Kuru]

I think this is a part of Afghan Peace Process. Also, this will really backfire in the next FATF meet. All the best for the blacklist

 

[Mentee]

Useless Pakistani courts

A shame for the nation

Shameless courts. Very disappointed.

Ab bas sirf Balochistan high court reh gai hay jis nay koi chawal marni hay.

I think this is a part of Afghan Peace Process. Also, this will really backfire in the next FATF meet. All the best for the blacklist

ko

Its unfortunate what happened with the journalist but you under no circumstances can keep a guy in jail for a crime he didn't commit. 20 years spent for abducting are an over kill but if our elite feels obligated to kiss up to the white Christians then yeah he deserved more than what the law had to offer.

As for the monkey jibe , the joke is on the lea's

 

[Areesh]

I think this is a part of Afghan Peace Process. Also, this will really backfire in the next FATF meet. All the best for the blacklist

This pajeet still has his hopes for black list

 

[Mentee]

I think this is a part of Afghan Peace Process. Also, this will really backfire in the next FATF meet. All the best for the blacklist

Thank you for the kind words - - - - - - - - we'd provide you with medic support for what's coming your way

 

[Haris Ali2140]

ko

Its unfortunate what happened with the journalist but you under no circumstances can keep a guy in jail for a crime he didn't commit. 20 years spent for abducting are an over kill but if our elite feels obligated to kiss up to the white Christians then yeah he deserved more than what the law had to offer.

As for the monkey jibe , the joke is on the lea's

I don't know what happened in that case but atill the point remains. This is from Peshawar high court:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1245646393273794561

 

[CrazyZ]

Court overturns conviction in killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl
By Joe Tacopino

April 2, 2020 | 2:37am | Updated


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Pearl, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, was abducted and beheaded in Karachi.AP/Wall Street Journal
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A court in Pakistan on Thursday overturned the death sentence and murder conviction of a British-born militant for the 2002 slaying of journalist Daniel Pearl.

A lawyer for the militant, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, said his client’s sentence had been reduced to seven years in prison for the charge of kidnapping, according to Agence France-Presse.

Sheikh was expected to be released from prison after serving there since 2002.

Pearl, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, was abducted and beheaded in Karachi. A video of Pearl’s decapitation was delivered to the US consulate there.

Sheikh was sentenced to death in 2002.

A report released by the Pearl Project at Georgetown University has claimed that the wrong men were convicted for Pearl’s murder.

Instead, the investigation says Pearl was murdered by Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.

Mohammed was arrested in Pakistan in 2003 and is being held in Guantanamo Bay.

https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/pakis...iction-in-killing-of-journalist-daniel-pearl/

An independent american investigation determined that Danial Pearl was killed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammad. These men were involved in the kidnapping but not the murder.

 

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ko

Its unfortunate what happened with the journalist but you under no circumstances can keep a guy in jail for a crime he didn't commit. 20 years spent for abducting are an over kill but if our elite feels obligated to kiss up to the white Christians then yeah he deserved more than what the law had to offer.

As for the monkey jibe , the joke is on the lea's

As per many liberals in case a bearded man is convicted then he should get swear punishment or in plain words should be hanged. But in case of Kalbushan or Abhinandan they should be released for sake of peace and justice. Daniel Pearl himself was under suspicion to be CIA agent. However our country is open for every enemy of the country to enter here get whatever propaganda material and then defame our beloved country/religion. There are numerous people who were debriefed by foreign agencies with the free will of Govt.
We are beggars and have no self respect when it comes to Daniel Pearl we are ready to defame our courts and even demand shamelessly to hang a person for crime in which he was not involved. But we are too afraid to demand Daniel Pearl's background or Raymond who himself spying in our beloved country yet forcefully the victims families were given blood money. Many of so called Islamic terrorists were once USA's beloved and honored persons.
It is a social issue that USA and UK especially should check why well educated Muslims are turning against their own countries.
The people running Anti Islamic sites/Pages or blogs with clear evidence of funding from West are free to plunder the countries ideology and our liberals or let me say so called people with Muslim names shall fully support them.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Whilst everyone calls this shameless, I think we have to remember exactly how the US protected Raymond Allen Davis after his rampage.

After they did that, I don't think they can complain when we do this to the people who killed one of their citizens.

You really don't think there is a problem with alleged terrorists/murderers walking free around Pakistan?

Just because the US acted disgracefully in the Raymond Davis case does not mean we need to do the same.

However, I don't know what the evidence presented was and did not follow the case so I can't really say whether the decision to acquit on murder charges was correct or not, but the decision does seem to follow a recent trend of Pakistani courts releasing individuals accused of terrorism.

 

[313ghazi]

He should sack his lawyer. He should have approved lahore high court years ago.