US Secretary of State speaks with Daniel Pearl’s household, assures them of justice

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has spoken with Daniel Pearl’s household and their representatives, and warranted them of the American authorities’s dedication to get justice.
Pearl, the 38-year-old South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, was kidnapped and beheaded whereas he was in Pakistan investigating a narrative in 2002 on the hyperlinks between the nation’s highly effective spy company ISI and al-Qaeda.
Blinken spoke with family members of Daniel Pearl and their representatives right this moment to guarantee them that the US authorities stays dedicated to pursuing justice and accountability for these concerned in Daniel’s kidnapping and homicide, State Department Spokesperson Ned Price mentioned on Friday.

Last week, Pakistan’s Supreme Court criticised the prosecution for its failure to show the guilt of British-born al-Qaeda terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the primary accused within the sensational kidnapping and homicide of Pearl in 2002.

His homicide occurred three years after Sheikh, together with Jaish-e-Mohammad chief (JeM) Masood Azhar and Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar, was launched by India in 1999 and given secure passage to Afghanistan in trade for the practically 150 passengers of hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814.
The Sindh High Court on April 2, 2020 commuted the demise sentence of Sheikh convicted of kidnapping and murdering US journalist Pearl in 2002 to seven years and acquitted three others who have been serving life phrases within the case virtually twenty years after they have been discovered responsible and jailed.
The Supreme Court on January 28 ordered authorities to launch the accused whereas issuing a cut up order.
The judgment mentioned nearly all of judges have been entertaining no quantity of doubt that prosecution had did not deliver residence guilt of the accused/respondents and appellant because the proof furnished throughout the trial is filled with factual and authorized defects.
Voicing outrage over the acquittal of Sheikh and his aides, the White House had requested Pakistan to expeditiously evaluation its authorized choices, together with permitting the US to prosecute them to safe justice for Pearl’s household.

Amid mounting stress from the US and the UN, the federal authorities filed an software earlier than the apex court docket to be allowed to affix as a celebration within the proceedings and additional search evaluation and recall of the court docket’s January 28 judgement.