The Pakistan government will challenge in the Supreme Court a lower court verdict that overturned the death sentence of the prime accused and acquitted three others in the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Karachi in 2002, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Saturday.
The Sindh High Court on Thursday overturned the death sentence of the prime accused and top al-Qaeda leader Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to seven years in jail and acquitted the three others - Fahad Naseem, Salman Saqib and Sheikh Adil- serving life sentences in the case.
The US has termed the Pakistani court verdict an "affront" to the victims of terrorism everywhere.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that the country will not forget Daniel Pearl and we continue to honour his legacy as a courageous journalist and demand justice for his brutal murder."
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