The Sindh High Court has approved on Thursday appeals against the death sentences handed to four men in the Daniel Pearl murder case.
Main accused Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh’s death sentence has been commuted to a seven-year imprisonment while the other three—Fahad Naseem, Sheikh Adil and Salman Saqib—have been freed.
A two-judge bench, headed by Justice Karim Khan Agha, had reserved the judgment last month on the convicts’ appeals, which had been pending for 18 years.
An anti-terrorism court had on July 15, 2002 sentenced Omar to death and handed life sentences to the other three for abducting and killing the journalist.
The court noted that while there was evidence that Omar had abducted the American journalist, there was none proving that he killed him.
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