The Sindh Government on July 2 issued an order to detain four persons convicted in the kidnapping and killing of a United States (US) journalist Daniel Pearl, whose sentences were overturned by the Sindh High Court (SHC), earlier in April, reports Dawn. Two officials in Central Prison Karachi and the Sindh Home Department, which issued the order, said, while speaking on condition of anonymity, that a British Pakistani national, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, as well as the co-accused, Fahad Naseem, Sheikh Adil and Salman Saqib, will be detained at the prison till September 30. The move comes days after the Supreme Court paved the way for Sheikh's release by rejecting a Government request for an immediate hearing of an appeal against his acquittal in the 2002 murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl. The order of detention has been issued under Section 11-EE of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997. It empowers the Government “to arrest or detain suspected persons.”