Omar Saeed Sheikh's lawyer are waiting for the court to hear his appeal against the death sentence on the plea that it was self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, who had admitted to killing Daniel Pearl.
Omar Saeed Sheikh, Maulana Masood Azhar and Mushtag Ahmed Zargar, all terrorists, were freed by India on January 1, 2000 during the Kandahar hijack in exchange for hostages on board the hijacked Indian Airlines plane.
He was convicted and sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court in Karachi after he was found guilty of planning and killing Daniel Pearl. Pearl was kidnapped and beheaded by Omar Saeed Sheikh and three others in Karachin in 2002.
Omar Saeed Sheikh has also admitted to abducting Western tourists in Jammu and Kashmir and was in jail from 1994 till 1999 till he was released by the then External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh at Kandahar.
Updated on: February 16, 2014 9:10 IST
