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This is an archive article published on February 27, 2004
Pak silent on Omar146;s transfer
Pakistani officials today drew a veil of silence over their reasons for shifting Sheikh Omar, facing death for the murder of US reporter Dan...
Pakistani officials today drew a veil of silence over their reasons for shifting Sheikh Omar, facing death for the murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl, to a jail in the northern city of Rawalpindi.
8216;8216;I have asked senior officials of the government who said the matter is confidential and cannot be divulged,8217;8217; State attorney Anwar Mansoor Khan told a two-judge Sindh High Court bench. Ahmed Saeed Sheikh Omar, who earlier was in a prison in southern Hyderabad, was flown to Rawalpindi8217;s Adiala Jail last month.
His lawyers brought an appeal before the Sindh High Court asking judges to justify the move.
Defence lawyer Abdul Waheed Katpar has challenged the move saying that under the country8217;s Prisoners Act, no inmate can be shifted from one province to another without the President8217;s order.
The court adjourned the proceedings until March 18. However Khan indicated that Omar could be shifted back to a jail in Sindh before the next hearing. Press reports said that Omar was moved so that he could be interrogated about two assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf in December.
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