Pak court orders alleged Pearl killer be moved from prison February 01, 2021 at 10:38PM

Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered the release from prison on Tuesday of Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, a ringleader in the kidnapping and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl by al Qaeda and Pakistani Islamist militants in 2002. ​​Pakistan's government had appealed to the court on Friday to review its decision to free the British-born Islamist.