Karachi (HRNW) The Sindh government has challenged the Sindh High Court verdict in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl. Sindh Prosecutor General Dr Fiaz Shah filed a petition in the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
On April 2, the Sindh High Court overturned the death sentence for British-born militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who had been convicted in the case in 2002. His sentence was commuted to seven years and a fine of Rs2,000,000 was imposed on him.
Three suspects, Adil Sheikh, Salman Saqib and Fahad Nasim, were acquitted. They had previously been sentenced to life imprisonment.
The petition says that the suspects had confessed to the crime before a presiding judge of an anti-terrorism court in Karachi and the “acquittal and modification of sentence through the impugned judgment is not sustainable and is liable to be set aside”.
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