SHC overturns death penalty of prime accused.

KARACHI -- The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday commuted the death sentence of prime suspect Ahmed Omer Sheikh to seven years in prison in the abduction and murder case of American journalist Daniel Pearl. Justice KK Agha and Justice Zulfiqar Ali Sangi issued the verdict on appeals, lodged by the suspects against their sentences, after 18 years and acquitted the other three accused who had been handed over life terms earlier.

Fahad Naseem, Salman Saqib and Sheikh Adil were the co-accused. Ahmed Omer Sheikh, the main accused, is a British national.

The SHC remarked that the kidnapping case was proven...

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