Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release of a man who was convicted and later acquitted in the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.Rejecting appeals by both the Sindh government and the Pearl family, the Supreme Court's three-member bench ruled 2 to 1 in favor of upholding a high court's April 2020 acquittal and ordered the release of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh.British-born Sheikh, who allegedly had links with Islamist militant groups, was sentenced to death in 2002 by an antiterrorism court in Hyderabad, while three accomplices were given life sentences.Howev…READ FULL ARTICLE
