CNN reporter who covered Pearl case in 2002: This is a shocking development
CNN reporter who covered Pearl case in 2002: This is a shocking development

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ruled that four men convicted of kidnapping and murdering US journalist Daniel Pearl should go free.

Pearl was working for the Wall Street Journal in 2002 when he was kidnapped in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi.

Assailants later filmed Pearl’s beheading and sent it to United States officials.

CNN’s Ivan Watson reports.