HYDERABAD, Aug 4: The four convicts of the Daniel Pearl kidnapping-cum- murder case have appealed the Sindh Home Department to shift them to the Karachi Central Prison.

The DIG, Prisons, Nawaz Hussain, confirmed that the appeals were received from Ahmed Omar Saeed Shaikh, Syed Salman Saqib, Fahad Naseem and Sheikh Adil and sent to the IG, Prisons, Sindh, Nisar Mahar.

Shaikh, Naseem and Adil have requested for their shifting on the ground that their appeals were in the Sindh High Court and their relatives had to come to Hyderabad from Karachi to see them. Saqib stated that he was a patient of hepatitis and was, earlier, being treated at the Agha Khan Hospital, Karachi.