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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43027)	7/16/2002 6:24:57 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

The state Tuesday filed three appeals seeking capital punishment for the three co-accused in the Daniel Pearl case who were Monday sentenced to life imprisonment by Hyderabad’s Anti-Terrorism Court. State seeks death for Omar’s co-accused Daily Times reporting today..KARACHI: Sindh advocate general Raja Qureshi filed the separate but identical appeals under Section 25 (4) of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997, before the anti-terrorism appellate bench of the Sindh High Court. The Anti-Terrorism Court condemned main defendant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to die. He and Fahad Nasim, Salman Saqib and Adil Sheikh, had been accused of the kidnapping and murder of The Wall Street Journal correspondent. The appeals maintained that it was clearly stated in the Anti-Terrorism Act that the anti-terrorism courts should not adopt a lenient approach. The appeals said the charges of kidnap, murder and terrorism had been established by the prosecution against the four defendants. Meanwhile, police said they had received a threat to kill officials if they carry out the death sentence passed against Sheikh Omar, reports Reuters. A senior police official said the threat, in a letter, prompted authorities to tighten security for the judge who convicted Omar on Monday. The threat was sent to officials at Omar's jail in Hyderabad, the city’s police chief Moazzam Jah Ansari told Reuters by telephone. He said the letter, whose author called himself "Mujahid Changez Khan", asked the jail superintendent to treat Omar in the best possible manner and warning him of death if the sentence were carried out.