On July 15, 2002, an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Hyderabad, Sindh, had sentenced Sheikh to death. It also handed life term to the other three suspects for the abduction and killing of Pearl. All four challenged their conviction in the SHC in 2002 that remained pending till 2020.
What is full form of SHC in this?
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Scientific Humanitarian Committee
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On January 28, 2021, the Pakistan Supreme Court rejected the Sindh government’s detention of British-born Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh (henceforth Omar Sheikh) and three others under the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance. When implemented, Omar Sheikh would walk free, having been acquitted by the Sindh High Court (SHC) of the charge of killing of US national and the South Asian bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal Daniel Pearl.
Pearl had been abducted in Karachi on January 23, 2002, while searching for Mubarak Ali Gilani to investigate the links of Richard Reid, the “shoe bomber” with Pakistani jihadi organisations and the ISI. This was when Omar Sheikh led him into a trap. A month later, a videotape was delivered to the US Consulate in Karachi showing Pearl’s beheading.
On July 15, 2002, an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Hyderabad, Sindh, had sentenced Sheikh to death. It also handed life term to the other three suspects for the abduction and killing of Pearl. All four challenged their conviction in the SHC in 2002 that remained pending till 2020.