Family of beheaded journalist Pearl to appeal against freeing convicted murderers

The family of US journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and beheaded in Pakistan in 2001, plans to appeal to Pakistan’s Supreme Court to overturn a decision to free the four men convicted of his murder.

A panel of three judges of the court on Thursday threw out the 2002 murder convictions against the four Islamists, including the group’s British-born ringleader, Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh...