ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has rejected the appeals of the Sindh government in the murder case of American journalist Daniel Pearl and ordered immediate release of Umar Sheikh.
A three-member bench headed by Justice Mushir Alam in the Supreme Court heard appeals to stay the release of the accused in the Daniel Pearl murder case.
During the hearing, the Sindh government provided sensitive information to the Supreme Court in a sealed envelope and the Advocate General Sindh told the court that Omar Sheikh had links with banned organizations, there was evidence but not enough to prove it in court.
Justice Omar Ata asked that the material given to the Supreme Court has not been presented in any forum before, how to review the information that has never come on the record? If the state had information, why did it not file a case of anti-state against Omar Sheikh?
A three-member bench of the court, by a two-to-one majority, ordered the immediate release of Omar Sheikh.
