US concerns natural, will challenge acquittal of Daniel Pearl murder convicts: Qureshi

Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi stated on Saturday that the apprehensions expressed with the aid of America government over the acquittal of 4  people convicted in killing of Amerian journalist Daniel Pearl were “natural”.

He added that the decision could be challenged in the country’s Supreme Court.

“Pakistan has made many sacrifices within the combat towards terrorism,” the FM stressed, including, “The entire kingdom fought a long battle against terrorism and defeated this menace with collective efforts.”

Qureshi further said that the accused had the right to attraction and the Sindh High Court, at the same time as acknowledging this right, suspended the life sentence given to 3 accused - Fahad Naseem, Salman Saqib and Sheikh Adil - and commuted high accused Sheikh Omar’s capital punishment to seven-year imprisonment.

However, hours after the verdict, the Sindh Home branch issued orders to detain the four before they were launched from prison, citing enough purpose to believe that these men might also act “against the hobby of the country”.

“Yesterday, the Sindh government had ordered the detention of the four suspects for 90 days under the Public Safety Act,” Qureshi stated.

The US State Department had in advance condemned the overturning of the convictions and terming the decision “an affront to victims of terrorism everywhere”.

“Those answerable for Daniel’s heinous kidnapping and murder have to face the full degree of justice,” senior US diplomat Alice Wells wrote on Twitter on Thursday.

On Friday, Pakistan’s Ministry of Interior had stated that the government of Sindh would report a subsequent appeal week against the judgment inside the Supreme Court.

“The authorities of Pakistan has asked the Sindh authorities to devote its first-class resources inside the pursuance of enchantment earlier than the Honorable Supreme Court of Pakistan,” it said, including that the provincial government became advised to seek advice from Attorney General for Pakistan in the matter.

Pearl, the 38-yr South Asia bureau leader of Wall Street Journal, became abducted and beheaded while he grew in Pakistan investigating a story on the alleged links between the country’s dominant spy employer ISI and al-Qaeda.

Sheikh, who turned into the mastermind in the back of abduction and killing of Pearl, changed into arrested from Lahore in February 2002 and sentenced to death five months later by means of an anti-terrorism court.