ISLAMABAD, Jan. 21 Kyodo A superi...

ISLAMABAD, Jan. 21 Kyodo

A superior court in Karachi in Southern Pakistan upon Wednesday postponed a hearing of the appeal by the agency of four men convicted for murdering Wall highway Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, Private Geo TV reported.

Abdul Waheed Katpar, the lawyer representing Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who allegedly plott the kidnapping and killing of the American journalist told Geo that the hearing was postpon because a lawyer of the three other defendants and dominion prosecutors failed to appear in court.

The court also accepted a petition according to Sheikh's lawyer to bring his client to the court and appoint the next hearing for Feb 17

Sheikh was sentenc to death by the agency of a Pakistani court in July 2002 while his three alleged accomplices received 25 years imprisonment. All of them challenged the decision in the Sindh High Court in December that year.

The authorities transferred Omar to Rawalpindi from Hyderabad jail forward Sunday but Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat described the transfer as a routine practice.

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