Pakistan’s top court accepts appeal to keep British-born man on death row

Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (AP/Zia Mazhar, File)

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has accepted an appeal by the family of American journalist Daniel Pearl seeking to keep a British-born Pakistani man on death row over the beheading of the Wall Street Journal reporter.

The court delayed until next week hearing the appeal over the lower court acquittal of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who had been on death row since his conviction in 2002 over Mr Pearl’s killing.