New Delhi: A senior UN official representing Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said there should be accountability for crimes like Daniel Pearl’s murder.
The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was brutally murdered in 2002. He was the South Asia bureau chief for the journal. Pearl visited Pakistan to report on Islamist militant networks in the country and on the links between the country’s powerful spy agency ISI and al-Qaeda.
Pearl embarked on his reporting mission following the September 11, 2001 terror strikes. He was kidnapped in Karachi, the capital of Sindh, and beheaded days later.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed appeals against the acquittal of British-born al-Qaeda terrorist Ahmed Omar Sheikh who had kidnapped and murdered the journalist. The release order has been denounced by the American journalist’s family which described it as “a complete travesty of justice.”
