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Daniel Pearl murder: Pakistan supreme court orders release of British-born man
Majority ruling upholds earlier decision to commute sentence of Ahmed Omar Saeed SheikhPakistan’s supreme court has ordered the release of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British-born Islamist militant who had been sentenced to death for the execution of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002.Pearl was kidnapped in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi in January 2002 during an investigation into al-Qaida and beheaded by Islamic militants, with a video of the killing posted online. Continue reading...
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