Pakistan court orders UK-born man acquitted of journalist’s murder off death row

Ahmed Saeed Sheikh, right, father of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, leaves court with his lawyer (Anjum Naveed/AP)

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered the British-born man acquitted of the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002 off death row and moved to a so-called government “safe house”.

Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who has been on death row for 18 years, will be under guard and will not be allowed to leave the safe house, but his wife and children will be allowed to visit him.