Daniel Pearl News
India highlighted the "very low conviction rate in Pakistan" when it comes to sentencing of terror accused.
MEA Spokesperson said, "This case truly demonstrates Pakistan’s intent on taking action on the terror front."
A Pakistani court has ordered the release of British-born al-Qaeda leader Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and his three aides.
They were convicted and sentenced in the abduction and murder case of American journalist Daniel Pearl.
US journalist Daniel Pearl was abducted and beheaded while he was in Pakistan investigating a story in 2002.
He was the 38-year-old South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal.
Wall Street Journal reporter Pearl, 38, was investigating Islamist militants in the city of Karachi, the capital of Sindh, after September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States when he was kidnapped in January 2002.
In 2002, Daniel Pearl was abducted from outside a hotel in Pakistan's Islamabad when he was introduced to a man, Bashir, but was actually Omar.
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