A court in the southern port city of Karachi began hearing an appeal by Ahmed Omar Sheikh , the British born Islamic militant who was convicted of masterminding the kidnapping and killing in January 2002 of Daniel Pearl , an American reporter .
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Daniel Pearl
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Karachi
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