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Police vehicles are driven out from the Karachi Central Prison where British-born Pakistani Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was charged, convicted and later acquitted in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl is detained, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. Pakistan is scrambling to manage the fallout of a Supreme Court decision to free the Pakistani-British man accused in the 2002 beheading of American Journalist Daniel Pearl. The Sindh Provincial government on Friday filed a review petition, asking the same court to revisit its decision. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

EXPLAINER: What’s next if Pakistan frees man in Pearl murder

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 29, 2002 file photo, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British-Pakistani man accused in the 2002 killing of the American Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl appears at the court in Karachi, Pakistan. In a dramatic turn of events, Sheikh, a man convicted and later acquitted in the 2002 murder of Pearl admitted a &quot;minor&quot; role in his death, upending 18 years of denials, the Pearl family lawyer said Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Zia Mazhar, File)

Pakistan court orders release of man accused in Pearl death

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Faisal Siddiqi, a lawyer for the family of Daniel Pearl, an American reporter for the Wall Street Journal who was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan, talks to journalists after an appeal hearing in the case, at the Supreme Court, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. In a dramatic turn of events, Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheik, a man convicted and later acquitted in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl admitted a &quot;minor&quot; role in his death, upending 18 years of denials, the Pearl family lawyer said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Waseem Khan)

Pakistani suspect admits to role in Daniel Pearl’s beheading

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press