ATC frees suspect in Daniel Pearl murder case

HYDERABAD: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Friday freed Qari Hashim Ali one of the suspects in the murder case of American Journalist Daniel Pearl.

Police had arrested Qari Hashim Ali for involvement in the kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl.

The South Asian bureau chief at the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and killed in Karachi in 2002.

The mastermind of the murder Ahmed Omer Sheikh has been awarded the death sentence while life sentences have been handed to co-accused Salman Saqib, Fahad Naseem and Sheikh Adil.