Pakistan orders release of journalist’s murder suspect

By Associated Press

Jan 30, 2021 12:09 am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered on Thursday the release of a Pakistani-British man convicted and later acquitted in the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.

I’M FREE Ahmed Omer Sheikh, one of the accused in the brutal killing of journalist Daniel Pearl, is escorted out of Karachi jail on Jan. 28, 2021 hours after the court cleared him of any culpability in the killing. AP PHOTO

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