KARACHI, March 11: Justice Shabbir Ahmed of the High Court of Sindh, who is also the administrative judge of anti-terrorism courts for Karachi division, allowed on Monday counsel to meet two accused in the Daniel Pearl kidnapping and murder case.

Khawaja Naveed Ahmed, advocate, moved an application seeking permission of the court to meet undertrial prisoners Fahd Nasim and Syed Salman Saqib to seek instructions and to prepare their defence.

After hearing the counsel, the judge passed the order: “The counsel is allowed to meet his above clients in jail in accordance with the jail rules.”

Both accused in their confessional statements reportedly confessed their involvement in sending e-mails to media organizations containing the pictures of Daniel Pearl, reporter of the Wall Street Journal, in captivity.

They also confessed that they sent two e-mails on the directives of the main accused in the case, Ahmed Omar Saeed Shaikh.—APP/PPI