ISLAMABAD—Pakistan’s top court agreed Monday to hear arguments that a death sentence should be reinstated on the British national accused of orchestrating the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl after a lower court overturned his conviction earlier this year.
The Supreme Court ordered that Omar Sheikh continue to be detained for now. The fate of Mr. Sheikh, who was sentenced to death in 2002 for orchestrating the abduction and killing of Mr. Pearl, has become an important litmus test of Pakistan’s…
