{"id":27521,"date":"2021-01-30T03:16:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T18:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/29\/pakistan-seeks-review-of-acquittals-in-daniel-pearl-case"},"modified":"2021-01-30T03:16:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T18:16:32","slug":"pakistan-seeks-review-of-acquittals-in-daniel-pearl-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27521","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan seeks review of acquittals in Daniel Pearl murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government petition comes after supreme court orders release of four men convicted of killing journalist<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s government has appealed to the supreme court to review its decision to free a British-born Islamist and three others convicted of beheading the American journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/daniel-pearl\">Daniel Pearl<\/a>, a day after the US expressed \u201cdeep concerns\u201d over the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>A panel of three judges of the court on Thursday acquitted Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three other Islamists, who had been convicted in 2002 on charges of kidnapping and murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/29\/pakistan-seeks-review-of-acquittals-in-daniel-pearl-case\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government petition comes after supreme court orders release of four men convicted of killing journalistPakistan\u2019s government has appealed to the supreme court to review its decision to free a British-born Islamist and three others convicted of beheadi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1316,60,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel-pearl","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27522,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27521\/revisions\/27522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}