Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday overturned the murder conviction of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh. Natural for the US to have reservations on Daniel Pearl case: FM QureshiOn Oct 16, 2003, US’ then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice had called Daniel Pearl’s widow Mariane, disclosing that American investigators have cracked the case. “We have now established enough links and credible evidence to think that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was involved in your husband’s murder,” Rice told Mariane. According to researchers in 2006, the US authorities deliberately decided not to try Mohammad and his associate for the murder of Pearl in military tribunals. Supreme Court appeal in Daniel Pearl case next weekAn exchange of fire took place at that place in which a police inspector and a constable were killed.

Source: The Express Tribune April 04, 2020 10:30 UTC