Pearl case convicts
HYDERABAD- Four convicts in the Daniel Pearl kidnapping and murder case offered Taraveeh prayers collectively as the Hyderabad prison administration provided them an under trail prisoner, who is a Hafiz-i-Quran, confined in Dar-ul-Quran ward, led the Taraveeh prayers for the convicts, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, Fahad Naseem, Syed Salman Saqib and Sheikh Adil, in a room of the security ward.
The convicts would, however, offer five time prayers separately in their cells of the security ward.
Sheikh Aslam, the brother of Adil had submitted an application to the Sindh home secretary, asking him to allow the convicts to offer Taraveeh prayers collectively with the other prisoners of to provide them a separate Hafiz-i-Quran.
Source: Dawn
Date:11/9/2002
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