The Pakistani government on Wednesday ordered a British-born Pakistani man, who has been on death row over the 2002 killing of Jewish-American journalist Daniel Pearl, to remain in jail for another three months despite his acquittal by a lower court earlier this year, The Associated Press reported.
The development was announced by prosecutors during a brief hearing of the high-profile case at Pakistan’s Supreme Court, which was to decide whether the key suspect in Pearl’s slaying, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, should stay in jail following his acquittal.
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