Akbar Shahid Ahmed is HuffPost's senior foreign affairs reporter, based in Washington, D.C. A native Pakistani, Akbar has reported from across the Muslim-majority world, Europe and elsewhere.

The judgement, delivered by Justice Sadiq Mahmud Khurram, overturned the convictions of Raja Shahid Ahmad, Haq Nawaz Abbasi, Aurangzeb, and Malik Muhammad Safdar, who had been sentenced to ...