From Zeeshan Mirza
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday set aside the provincial government’s detention orders for four men set free around eight months back by the order of the SHC in the abduction and murder case of US journalist Daniel Pearl.
However, their names were placed on the no-fly list and they were also directed to appear before the court whenever summoned.
The bench pronounced the order after hearing lengthy arguments from both sides and observed that the provincial authorities remained unable to produce justified reasons for the continuous detention of the petitioners Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh, Fahad Naseem, Salman Saqib and Sheikh Adil who had moved the court through their counsel against their continuous detention since their release order in April.
During Thursday’s hearing, a two-judge bench, presided over by Justice K. K. Agha, directed security agencies not to keep Sheikh and other accused under “any sort of detention” and declared all notifications of the Sindh govt related to their detention “null and void”.
