Shaikh's counsel further said that his client was only permitted to meet his wife and son, while his mother in law, uncle and aunt not being allowed to visit him.
The Sindh Police has handed over Ahmed Saeed Shaikh to the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) and the accused has been shifted to Chauhang CTD Cell in Lahore, according to sources.
A bench of the apex court headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandial while dismissing the petition ordered immediate removal of main accused Ahmed Omer Saeed Shaikh and others from the death cell of the jail.
Attorney General Khalid Javed appeared before the apex court bench and argued that the Sindh High Court didn't issue a notice in Daniel Pearl case to the Attorney General.
A bench of the apex court headed by Justice Mushir Alam announced a brief verdict over the appeal of the Sindh government against the Sindh High Court's April 2020 decision.
The 38-year-old South Asia bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, Daniel Pearl, was researching for a story on religious extremists in January 2002 in Karachi, when he was abducted and slain.
Advocate General Sindh pleaded the court to adjourn hearing until the Supreme Court decides an appeal against the Sindh High Court verdict in Daniel Pearl murder case.
A contempt of court petition was filed against the provincial chief secretary, jail officials and others over the government’s failure in compliance of the court orders.
"Terrorism cases are used to be based on confessional statements," Faisal Siddiqui, the counsel of the parents of slain American journalist Daniel Pearl, said while concluding his arguments.
A contempt of court petition was filed against the provincial chief secretary, jail officials and others over the government's failure in compliance of the court orders.
"In the bag emails, camera, scanner and some photographs were found," Faisal Siddiqui said in his arguments before a three-judge bench headed by Justice Mushir Alam.
In his arguments before a three-judge bench headed by Justice Mushir Alam, counsel Faisal Siddiqui pleaded that the court should review the evidence of kidnapping and murder separately.
A three-judge bench headed by Justice Mushir Alam, heard appeals filed by the Sindh government and parents of victim Daniel Pearl, challenging the April 02 Sindh High Court verdict