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Daniel Pearl's case in limboposted by ewing2001 on Saturday October 04, @12:17PM
  from the Atimes dept. 
Daniel Pearl's case in limbo
Asia Times - October 1
By B Raman
The case relating to the kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl, the US journalist, in the beginning of last year continues to be in a limbo, with no action by the government of Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf to have the hearing on the appeal filed by the accused expedited.
In the meanwhile, one of the dramatis personae - a former officer of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), who used to be the handling officer of Omar Sheikh, the principal accused, and one of the handling officers of Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar - the Taliban leader - could be rewarded with an ambassadorial appointment.
On July 15, 2002, a special anti-terrorism court in Hyderabad, Sindh province, found Ahmed Omar Sheikh, Syed Salman Saquib, Sheikh Muhammad Adil and Fahad Naseem guilty of the kidnapping and murder of Pearl. While Omar Sheikh was sentenced to death, the other three were sentenced to life imprisonment. Shortly thereafter, they appealed against their sentences before a division bench of the Sindh High Court.
Though it is now a year since the appeal was filed, there has been no progress in the hearing of the appeal. The defense lawyers have repeatedly absented themselves from the court, an action that has already adjourned the hearing six times. The sixth adjournment was granted on September 25. The case has now been fixed for hearing on October 21.
The court warned that if the defense lawyers do not appear on that date, it would dispense with their services and appoint a government lawyer to defend the accused.
Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Act, which has been repeatedly amended by successive governments to ensure expeditious disposal of the trial and the appeal in terrorism-related cases, contains adequate provisions for preventing such repeated adjournments and other means for delaying a trial.
When Musharraf had former prime minister Nawaz Sharif prosecuted under the Anti-Terrorism Act, the prosecution under his instructions ensured that the trial was disposed of and Sharif convicted within the time limits laid down by the act. In the case relating to the murder of Pearl, the prosecution itself has apparently been colluding with the defense lawyers and has refrained from moving the court to stop the delaying tactics repeatedly adopted by the defense lawyers.
In the meanwhile, Brigadier (retired) Ejaz Shah, Home Secretary of Punjab, before whom Omar Sheikh had surrendered in February last year, has reportedly been selected by Musharraf for posting as Pakistan's ambassador to Indonesia.
Before joining as home secretary, Punjab, he worked in the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and was once Omar Sheikh's principal handling officer, as well as one of bin Laden's and Mullah Omar's. When the Lahore and Karachi police started searching for Omar Sheikh after the kidnapping of Pearl, he surrendered to Ejaz Shah as he was afraid that the Karachi police might torture him.
Ejaz Shah immediately informed General Mohammad Aziz Khan, presently chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, who was No 2 in the ISI until October 1998, and the two carefully debriefed Omar Sheikh as to what he should tell the police during his interrogation. He was kept in their informal custody for a week and, thereafter, handed over to the police, who were told to announce that they had arrested him while searching for him, without mentioning that he had voluntarily surrendered to Shah.
Aziz and Shah did not want Omar Sheikh to admit to the Karachi police any role in the explosion outside the Legislative Assembly of Jammu & Kashmir in October, 2001, in the attack on the Indian parliament in December, 2001, and about his having told Lieutenant-General Ehsanul Haq, the present director general of the ISI, who was Corps Commander in Peshawar before October, 2001, about the plans of al-Qaeda to carry out terrorist strikes in the US.
However, Omar Sheikh disregarded their advice and told the Karachi police about these events. The News, a prestigious daily, came to know of some of his confessions to the Karachi police. The editor of the paper rejected a request from the ISI not to publish the story. Musharraf thereupon forced the owner to sack the editor, who went into exile in the US fearing a threat to his life from the ISI... CPJ concerned over threats to weeklyOneWorld.org -The News, March 20, 2003The Committee to Protect Journalists, New York, in a letter to President General Pervez Musharraf has expressed concern about a recent threat allegedly made by a senior Punjab official to weekly The Independent, Lahore. Following is the text of the letter: The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concern about a recent threat allegedly made by a senior official of the Punjab government to Independent a Lahore-based English-Language newspaper. On March 10, Punjab Home Secretary Ejaz Shah reportedly telephoned The Independent�s publisher, Ilyas Mehraj and told him, �Enough is enough. The Punjab government has finally decided decided against your newspaper for working against the national interest.� The weekly carried Shah�s comments in an article. Shah denied making these remarks and told the CPJ that he has not spoken to anyone at The Independent during the last week. However, the CPJ believes that because of the serious nature of the allegations, an official inquiry is warranted. The weekly�s editor told the CPJ that Shah who is a retired army brigadier, former head of the Punjab division on Pakistan�s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence, and a close associate of your excellency advised Mehraj to �roll back� the weekly�s operations if he wants to stay in business and stay safe. Shah allegedly criticize the newspaper for writing against the army and warned Mehraj to consider the example of Rana Sanaullah Khan, an opposition politician who has been twice arrested and tortured in official custody in apparent reprisal for his criticism of your military government. The weekly Independent also reports that the Punjab government has withheld all public advertisements from the newspaper for the past five months. Government advertisements provide a crucial source of revenue for newspapers in Pakistan and have been used by previous administrations to reward and punish certain publications for their political coverage. The CPJ urges your excellency to order a prompt and impartial investigation into the allegations that Ejaz Shah attempted to intimidate Weekly Independent�s publisher. If Shah did indeed make such threatening remarks, you should request that he resign. CPJ also respectfully asks your excellency as well as leaders of the Punjab government, to guarantee that all journalists in Pakistan are free to work without fear of political interference or physical reprisal. We will continue to monitor events there closely to ensure that no action is taken against The Independent, its staff, or management. More Infos about Pakistan Secret Service
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