Pakistani authorities on Friday re-arrested four men accused in the 2002 murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, a day after a lower court ruled to overturn their convictions
The High Court in the province of Sindh on Thursday acquitted the four, including Briton Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was sentenced to death in 2002 for masterminding Pearl’s murder. The other three were sentenced to life.
“The government of Sindh has sufficient reason that Ahmed Omar Sheikh and Fahad Nasim Ahmed, Syed Salman Saqib, Sheikh Muhammad Adil be arrested and detained for a period of three months from the date of arrest ,” a top official of the department said in the order, seen by Reuters.The law to keep them in detention is one that the government has often used to keep high-profile suspects, particularly militants, in custody after being unable to successfully prosecute them in court.
“Ministry of Interior, Government of Pakistan reiterates its commitment to follow due process under the laws of the country to bring terrorists to task,” the statement added. Pakistan denies that but it has been under the close scrutiny of a global watchdog on terror financing, the Financial Action Task Force , with its frequent inability to prosecute terrorism cases a particular concern of the agency.
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