SUSPECT IN BEHEADING OF US JOURNALIST DANIEL PEARL RELEASED (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Friday, October 24, 2014, 20:45

One of the suspects in the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl has been set free by an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan.

Qari Hashim was detained in 2005 and held in jail in Hyderabad, a southern city in Pakistan, during his trial.

The court acquitted Mr Hashim because of a lack of evidence, his lawyer said.

Pearl went missing in Karachi in January 2002. A month later authorities said he had been killed after receiving video footage of his beheading.

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