Laws no bar on Omar’s extradition: SHC
KARACHI- Pakistan said that no laws would be violated if it decides to extradite to the United States the confessed mastermind of slain American reporter Daniel Pearl’s abduction.
After assurances by the public prosecutor, the Sindh High Court threw out a petition filed by the wife of chief suspect Sheikh Omar asking that the British born Islamic militant not be extradited.
‘If the respondent (the Pakistani government) decides to deliver the husband of the petitioner to the offices or authorities of a foreign country, then he will be delivered without any contravention of the law of the land,’ the court ruling said.
Sheikh Omar’s wife, Sadia Omar Sheikh, had filed a petition saying that even if there were some allegations against him he (has) the right to a fair trail in his country and not by a court outside Pakistan.
The United States has appealed to President Pervez Musharraf to extradite Sheikh Omar, who admitted in court February 14 that he arranged Pearl’s kidnapping and that the reporter was dead.
Grisly videotape showing the Wall Street Journal correspondent’s slaying surfaced a week later.
Source: The Nation
Date:3/6/2002
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