American journalist Daniel Pearl went missing in Karachi in January 2002
Qari Hashim was detained in 2005 and held in jail in Hyderabad, a southern city in Pakistan, during his trial.
The court acquitted Qari Hashim because of a lack of evidence, his lawyer said.
Daniel Pearl went missing in Karachi in January 2002. A month later authorities said he had been killed after receiving video footage of his beheading.
In May 2002, a decapitated body was found in a shallow grave.
DNA test proved it was Daniel Pearl, who was South Asia bureau chief at the Wall Street Journal.
Omar Sheik, the alleged mastermind of the murder, was sentenced to death in 2002. Three other men were sentenced to life imprisonment.
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