Daniel Pearl murder case: British lawyer offers free services to Omar Sheikh
(WorldNews Pakistan)

LONDON: One of Britain’s youngest-ever Queen’s Counsels (QC) has offered his services free of charge to British-born militant Omar Ahmed Sheikh and three others who were recently acquitted of the charges of allegedly kidnapping and murdering Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street journalist, in Karachi in 2002. All four suspects have been kept in extended detention under maintenance of public order laws. Ali Naseem Bajwa, QC, who made history when he became one of the youngest ever QC in 2011, told this reporter in an interview that the handling of British-Pakistani Omar Sheikh’s case and the treatment of three other men, Fahad Nasim Ahmed, Syed Salman Saqib and Sheikh Muhammad Adil,...