{"id":9027,"date":"2021-01-29T18:40:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T18:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=9027"},"modified":"2021-01-29T18:40:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T18:40:13","slug":"usa-is-committed-to-securing-justice-for-daniel-pearl-antony-blinken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/usa-is-committed-to-securing-justice-for-daniel-pearl-antony-blinken\/","title":{"rendered":"USA is Committed to Securing Justice for Daniel Pearl &#8211; Antony Blinken"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9028\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Pak-USA-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/>Islamabad; 28 Jan 2021 &#8211; Secretary of State United States Antony J. Blinkens has said that our country is\u00a0deeply concerned\u00a0by the Pakistani Supreme Court\u2019s decision\u00a0to acquit\u00a0those involved in Daniel Pearl\u2019s kidnapping and murder\u00a0and\u00a0any proposed action to release them.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh was indicted in the United States in 2002 for hostage-taking and conspiracy to commit hostage-taking, resulting in the murder of Pearl, the South Asia Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal, as well as the 1994 kidnapping of another\u00a0United States citizen in India.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0The\u00a0court\u2019s\u00a0decision is an affront to terrorism victims everywhere, including in Pakistan. The United States recognizes past Pakistani actions to hold Omar Sheikh accountable and notes\u00a0that Sheikh currently remains detained under Pakistani law. We expect\u00a0the Pakistani government to expeditiously review its legal options\u00a0to ensure justice is served.<\/h3>\n<h3>We take note of the Attorney General\u2019s statement that he intends to seek review and recall of the decision.<\/h3>\n<h3>We\u00a0are\u00a0also\u00a0prepared to prosecute\u00a0Sheikh\u00a0in the United States for his horrific crimes against an American citizen. \u00a0We are committed to securing justice for Daniel Pearl\u2019s family and holding terrorists accountable.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad; 28 Jan 2021 &#8211; Secretary of State United States Antony J. Blinkens has said that our country is\u00a0deeply concerned\u00a0by the Pakistani Supreme Court\u2019s decision\u00a0to acquit\u00a0those involved in Daniel Pearl\u2019s kidnapping and murder\u00a0and\u00a0any proposed action to release them.\u00a0 Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh was indicted in the United States in 2002 for hostage-taking and conspiracy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,46],"tags":[910,911,48,122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9029,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9027\/revisions\/9029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}