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Pearl case accused moved to new premises
[Dawn] The Sindh government on Saturday moved Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh,
...also in our archives as Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh and Ahmed Omar Sheikh. He’s the Pakistani-Brit who has spent nearly two decades in various Pak government safe houses, protected from being either hanged or transferred to the U.S. for his not-minor role in Israeli-American Daniel Pearl’s heinous murder. He’d been a brilliant but violent lad, growing to be a violent and possibly brilliant man who hit all the jihadi hotspots at their peak: the London School of Economics, Bosnia during their little war, running Al Qaeda’s Afghan training camps, then jailed by India for kidnapping Western tourists in Kashmir for Pakistan’s ISI. He and two Harkat-ul-Mujahideen emirs were traded for the passengers and crew of a hijacked Indian Airlines plane in 1999, after which he wandered down to Karachi to hang with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s (KSM) gang. This may yet turn out to have been a fatal error...
the prime accused in the 2002 killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl, and his four associates
...Fahad Naseem, Sheikh Adil, and Salman Saqib. Saud Memon, accused of providing the place where Pearl was held before his death, died mysteriously in 2007, while Qari Hashim Ali was freed in 2014 when the court ruled there was not enough evidence to hold him. I wonder who the fourth protected man is...
from jail to a newly-built facility inside the prison, sources privy to the development said.
That’s one way to keep American ghosts from wandering off with him one dark night.
The move came in line with the Supreme Court’s orders last week that authorities must move Sheikh from a death cell in the Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
 Central Prison to a government rest house.

"All the suspects have been moved to the newly-built rest house inside the prison," said a source, citing a notification issued by the Sindh home department. "They would be allowed to see their families
..I believe Mr. Sheikh acquired a wife and daughter between being returned from Indian imprisonment and the murder of Daniel Pearl, in addition to the relatives he acquired by birth...
at the rest house though they would not enjoy any internet and telephone facility. The families of the suspects have also been offered space in Qasr-e-Naz" — a federal government owned building in the city.

The apex court had also directed the authorities to ensure complete security of the rest house, and allowed Sheikh’s family access to him from 8am to 5pm, while hearing a petition filed by the accused against his detention despite the high court’s orders. The SC had taken up an appeal moved by the Sindh government against the Sindh High Court’s Dec 24, 2020, order declaring illegal the provincial government’s June 29, 2020, notification of placing all accused on the Fourth Schedule of the Anti-Terrorist Act of 1997 pursuant to Section 11-EE with an observation that none of the accused was "enemy alien" as contemplated under Article 10(9) of the Constitution and as such their detention under this provision was found to be illegal.
Posted by: trailing wife 2021-02-07
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