Islamabad: Terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, Fahad Naseem, Sheikh Adil and Salman Saqib is to be released after the order of the Sindh High Court in connection with the abduction and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl. According to Daily Pakistan, the Sindh High Court on Thursday also ordered putting the names of accused Ahmed Omer Saeed Shaikh and others in the exit control list (ECL).
According to the report of Daily Pakistan, "Earlier Assistant Attorney General informed the court that the government have the authority to keep an accused in detention. The provincial home department held the accused under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) on September 28." The accused have been in jail for the last 18 years and ordered the accused to appear as and when the court summons them.
Terrorist Omar Saeed Sheikh is one of the three terrorists were freed by India during the hijacking of airliner IC814 in 1999 . n April this year, the appeals were heard after 18 years and acquitted Sheikh, Saqib and Nasim. After the appeals were heard, the death sentence of Seikh was commuted to seven years and fined him Rs2 million. Sheikh has already spent 18 years in prison on death row, and his seven-year sentence for kidnapping was counted as time served.
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