Washington, United States — The White House said it was “outraged” Thursday after Pakistan’s top court upheld the acquittal and ordered the release of the militant convicted of masterminding the 2002 beheading of US journalist Daniel Pearl.
Joe Biden’s administration is “outraged by the Pakistani Supreme Court’s decision,” his chief spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters, underscoring the uneasy alliance between Washington and Islamabad, which has fractured many times over Islamist militancy.
She called the ruling “an affront to terrorism victims everywhere” and demanded the Pakistani government “review its legal options.”
The White House statement came after Pakistan’s Supr…
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