It is clear which side they are on. Why does Pakistan receive even a penny of American aid? After this, however, Biden’s handlers will likely increase, not diminish or end, that aid. That’s how establishment foreign policy works: bribe those who hate you, no strings attached, and hope for the best.
“Islamist convicted of beheading U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl to go free, victim’s family in ‘shock,'” by Syed Raza Hassan and Asif Shahzad, Reuters, January 28, 2021 (thanks to Darcy):
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release of an Islamist convicted of beheading U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, a decision that has left his family in “complete shock”, lawyers said.
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was the main suspect in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Pearl, was released by a panel of three judges.
“By a majority of two to one, they have acquitted all the accused persons and ordered their release,” a provincial advocate general, Salman Talibuddin, told Reuters.
It was not immediately clear whether “acquittal” meant a finding of not guilty, or that they had merely finished their jail terms.
Sheikh has served 18 years in jail and a life sentence is usually a maximum 14 years.
Pearl, 38, was investigating Islamist militants in Karachi after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States when he was kidnapped.
His case grabbed headlines globally after a video of his beheading emerged weeks after he was abducted.
Sheikh and three co-accused are to be released if they are not required in any other cases, the head of the court panel, Justice Mushir Alam, said….
A high court last year commuted the death penalty of the British-born Sheikh into a life sentence and acquitted his three co-accused, citing lack of evidence. The acquittals were challenged.
The government and Pearl’s parents challenged the court decision and pleaded to the Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty.
The Supreme Court turned down both pleas on Thursday.
The United States had said that it may seek to retry Sheikh if efforts to keep him in prison failed….
mortimer says
The man looks like Sheikh Yasir Qadhi who says their are ‘HOLES IN THE STANDARD ISLAMIC NARRATIVE’.
There are holes in the reasoning to release a vicious murderer who killed a journalist because he was Jewish.
Halaku says
An Indian Airlines flight was hijacked from Nepal by Pakistani operatives trained and managed by their secret service ISI, in December 1999 to Kandahar, when Afghanistan was under the Taliban, and the passengers were kept as hostages till three major Islamic terrorists in Indian jails were released. One of the released terrorists was Omar Sheikh, who later went on to murder Daniel Pearl in 2002. This man deserves to be tried and punished for that Hijacking too, as his release was the reason for the crime and his accomplices were responsible for the hijacking and they have disappeared in Pakistan and remain unpunished.
ElderlyZionist says
“Why does Pakistan receive even a penny of American aid?”
Because they’re our supply line into Afghanistan. We have to bribe them to allow our supplies to transit.
That’s another good reason we should get out of Afghanistan.
Savvy Kafir says
It’s also because Pakistan has nuclear weapons, and our “leaders” hope the Pakis can be persuaded to refrain from using the nukes if we give them enough handouts. Supposedly the U.S. military has drawn up (then shelved) plans for seizing Pakistan’s nuclear weapons. That’s something that should be done before it’s too late — before the Allah junkies in Pakistan’s military or ISI hands off a nuke to terrorists, for them to smuggle into New York or some other major city. Of course, there’s no chance of the Biden administration greenlighting a bold military operation of that sort.
Walter Sieruk says
The means the Islamic government of Pakistan is condoning and even encouraging the behavior of jihadists murdering people.
Infidel says
How much US aid does Pakistan still get? I thought it had all ended after Trump. Indeed, after Osama’s capture, Pakistan should have been re-classified as an enemy country
gravenimage says
The US under President Trump *did* cut aid to Pakistan–but foolishly never ended it. And it will likely go back up under Biden.
Infidel says
Oh, okay. I don’t get why President Trump was generous at all w/ Pakistan: they have been a client state of China’s throughout his administration, and there’s nothing that the US is getting from this ‘relationship’. It should have been ended
gravenimage says
I agree, Infidel. I think Pakistan should be cut off entirely. But cutting them at all was a good thing.
Naram-Sin says
“That’s how establishment foreign policy works: bribe those who hate you, no strings attached, and hope for the best.”
It’s not a bribe. It’s Jizyah.
gravenimage says
Islamic Republic of Pakistan to free Muslim convicted of beheading Daniel Pearl
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Just appalling–but not surprising.