Posted on 03/10/2002 12:43:59 PM PST by Cinnamon Girl
KARACHI, March 10 (PNS): Sheikh Umer Saeed, the main accused in Wall Street Journal reporter Denial Pearl's murder case, appeared in the court of Judicial Magistrate Irm Jihangir here on Saturday.
Shaikh Omar who was arrested in Lahore on Feb 12 by Punjab Police and later was shifted to Karachi was brought to the court under strict security arrangement.
Omar's appearance was to allow the statement of a witness who identified him to be formally recorded before the court and to let his lawyer cross-examine the witness, a taxi driver. But his counsel Saiful Malook refused to cross-examine without having a detail meeting.
Earlier, the taxi driver, who drove Pearl to the restaurant, recorded his statement in the court under section 164. He told the court that Shaikh Omar had forcefully seated Daniel Pearl in his car.
Shaikh Omar however rejecting the statement said that the Taxi driver had given the statement due to intense police pressure.
The hearing took place in close doors and the court adjourned the hearing till March 12.
Meanwhile it is reported that The US government has sought Ahmed Saeed Omar Sheikh's extradition for the killing of an American, who, along with some other Western tourists, was abducted in occupied Kashmir some years back, and not in the Daniel Pearl kidnap and murder case.
However, sources said that the government would hold Omar's trial in the Pearl case in Pakistan if it was able to find sufficient evidence to get him convicted by Pakistani courts otherwise he would be extradited to the United States. Omar's point of view is that he remained in the Indian jails for four years and was charge-sheeted in the tourists' kidnap and murder case but no trial was ever held.
His stand is that he cannot be tried in the same case in the United States because nobody can be subjected to double jeopardy under the Americans' own law. He says that the Americans are working to try him in the same case.
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For the most part I agree with your statement. I think that Pak is just trying to save their own ass by "helping" us.
"It actually isn't"--Dog Gone
It's much more than a joke--it's a judicial nightmare and getting worse.
The weird mish-mashing and mingling of two systems--the Civil Court and the Shariat(Muslim religious)Court is bad enough--but stir in the corrupt power influence of a dictatorship over the judges' actions and the scene would be laughable if it weren't so sickening.
Historically, Pakistan's judiciary has been plagued by corruption, official interference and internal divisions. It has learned the hard way to cooperate with whatever government happens to be in power: whenever the court has asserted itself, it has generally been punished.
In 1997, Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah was ousted after wrangling with then-Prime Minister Muhammed Nawaz Sharif. The judge wanted to try Sharif for allegedly making derogatory remarks about the judiciary--which is illegal in Pakistan.
In recent weeks, new tensions have emerged between the military government and the judiciary. A December decision by a federal Shariah court, which administers Islamic law, held that Pakistan should adopt elements of a regressive Islamic banking system. This reportedly displeased the military rulers because it would hamper efforts to help Pakistan's crippled economy back on its feet. The rulers were also upset by an anti-terrorist court judge's refusal to hear the government's criminal case against ousted Prime Minister Sharif because intelligence agents were present in the courtroom. The trial was transferred to a lower-ranking judge and began last week. When news of the judges' refusal to take the oath arrived in the courtroom, Sharif and his co-defendants smiled.Historically, Pakistan's judiciary has been plagued by corruption, official interference and internal divisions. It has learned the hard way to cooperate with whatever government happens to be in power: whenever the court has asserted itself, it has generally been punished.
In 1997, Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah was ousted after wrangling with then-Prime Minister Muhammed Nawaz Sharif. The judge wanted to try Sharif for allegedly making derogatory remarks about the judiciary--which is illegal in Pakistan.
In recent weeks, new tensions have emerged between the military government and the judiciary. A December decision by a federal Shariah court, which administers Islamic law, held that Pakistan should adopt elements of a regressive Islamic banking system. This reportedly displeased the military rulers because it would hamper efforts to help Pakistan's crippled economy back on its feet. The rulers were also upset by an anti-terrorist court judge's refusal to hear the government's criminal case against ousted Prime Minister Sharif because intelligence agents were present in the courtroom. The trial was transferred to a lower-ranking judge and began last week. When news of the judges' refusal to take the oath arrived in the courtroom, Sharif and his co-defendants smiled.
TheIslamic world is not as united as one may think. The Saudis believe that they have the purist Islam which also gives a level of purity to the Arabic speaking Muslims. The second tier are the N. African Muslims with Turkey, 3 tier are the Pakistanis with the other Stans, 4th tier are Asian Muslims, 5th are the Black African Muslims, 6th are the Caucusus Muslims who in their eyes almost aren't Muslims. This is only referring to Sunnis. The Shiites are usually considered barely tolerable Muslims, sometimes apostates, but when against the Jews best friends. Bahais and other revealed Mahdi types are apostates. You can tell a lot about the pecking order by who is allowed to teach in Al Ahzar. Intermarriage between the tiers doesn't usually occur. Cleaving allegiances is much easier than one may think.
No they have not fallen off, but I hear that they have trouble keeping change in their pockets and also that water going down a drain swirls in the wrong direction.
Man faces life sentence for 1991 slaying
NEW YORK (AP) - A black man who was acquitted by a state jury of murdering a Jewish scholar during a 1991 riot in Brooklyn was convicted in federal court yesterday of violating the victim's civil rights in the stabbing.
I wonder if Lemrick Nelson may have to be tried yet another time. His Federal Conviction was recently thrown out by the the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (the same court which Sharpton castigated for overturning the convictions of Charles Schwarz, Thomas Wiese and Thomas Bruder).
But the track record so far looks pretty stout.
Funny how the same old faces keep showing up, whenever it goes in the fan.
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