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    Pakistan ends capital punishment for drug trafficking convicts

    Amir Latif

    Pakistan’s parliament on Tuesday approved new anti-narcotics legislation, removing capital punishment for drug trafficking convicts.

    “Anti-narcotics bill passed, removing capital punishment,” Commerce Minister Syed Naveed Qamar tweeted.

    The legislation "Control of Narcotics Substances Act, 2023" was passed during a joint session of the lower house – the National Assembly – and the upper house – the Senate – in the capital Islamabad, and will come into force at once.

    The maximum punishment, according to the fresh legislation, for a convict of a drug-related crime will be life imprisonment, whereas the minimum will be a six-month jail term.

    Pakistan imposed a ban on capital punishment in 2008 in exchange for trade incentives from the EU.

    However, it lifted the six-year ban on capital punishment after a gun-and-bomb attack on an army school in northwestern Peshawar city in December 2014, which killed over 140 people, mostly students.

    Since then, some 518 convicts have been executed.

    Human rights groups and the EU had condemned the lifting of the ban on capital punishment, saying it would not add to the government’s efforts to eliminate terrorism.

    Currently, there are more than 4,000 death-row convicts across Pakistan, according to the local media.

    In February 2021, Pakistan's Supreme Court, in a landmark judgment, ruled that prisoners with serious mental health problems cannot be executed for their crimes.

    https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacifi...nvicts/2954088
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Pervez Musharraf's Appeal Against Death Penalty In Court Months After His Death

    Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday decided to hear an appeal by now-dead former military dictator Pervez Musharraf against the special court majority judgment that handed him a death sentence on treason charges in 2019.
    Pervez Musharraf, who died on February 5 this year, had filed the appeal four years ago.

    "A four-member larger bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faiz Isa, heard the appeal against a decision to dissolve the special court that was previously hearing the Pervez Musharraf treason case," The Express Tribune newspaper reported.

    The bench - the other three judges are Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, Justice Aminud Din Khan, and Justice Athar Minallah - entertained different bars and lawyers' petitions against the Lahore High Court's (LHC) judgment that had declared Pervez Musharraf's trial as void.

    A three-judge special court of Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth, Justice Nazar Akbar, and Justice Shahid Karim in the 2-1 split verdict on December 17, 2019, had found Pervez Musharraf guilty of high treason under Article 6 for violation of the Constitution and sentenced him to death in absentia.

    The judgment angered the country's powerful army that has ruled over Pakistan for most of the period during its 75-plus years of existence. It was the first time a former top military official had faced such a sentence for treason in Pakistan.

    The death sentence was later annulled by the Lahore High Court.

    On Friday, hearing the petition nine months after Pervez Musharraf's death, the top court inquired why the appeal had not been fixed for a hearing for the past four years, and lamented that it is unfortunate that despite one judge's order in the chamber, the appeal was not fixed for the last four years, the newspaper said.

    "If we are not accountable to our system, then how will we be accountable to others," the paper quoted Chief Justice Isa as saying.

    Pervez Musharraf's counsel, advocate Salman Safdar stated that in February 2020, Justice Umar Ata Bandial had ordered the office to fix the former military dictator's appeal against the Registrar's objections before the larger bench but the case was not listed for the last four years.

    The counsel stated that the appeal is a continuity of trial and this should have been heard. Pervez Musharraf, through Safdar, had filed the plea to set aside the conviction by saying that the trial was conducted and completed "in sheer violation of the Constitution as well as the Code of Criminal Proce*dure (CrPC) 1898 as well as the suspension of the judgment in the interest of justice and fair play." "Subsequently, the hearing of the case was adjourned till November 21," The Express Tribune said.

    Pervez Musharraf, the architect of the Kargil War in 1999, died in Dubai after a prolonged illness in February 2023. The 79-year-old former military ruler, who had been in the UAE since 2016, was undergoing treatment for amyloidosis at a hospital in Dubai.

    The charges against Pervez Musharraf - who was sentenced in absentia by the special court - stemmed from his imposition of a state of emergency in 2007, after which dozens of judges were placed under house arrest or sacked, sparking widespread street protests by lawyers.

    Pervez Musharraf was booked in the high treason case in December 2013 when his old rival, Nawaz Sharif, was in power. He was indicted on March 31, 2014, but the trial was delayed and he left for Dubai two years later to seek treatment.

    Pervez Musharraf's trial and conviction was the first of its kind for violating Article 6 of the Constitution, which states, "Any person who abrogates or subverts or suspends or holds in abeyance, or attempts or conspires to abrogate or subvert or suspend or hold in abeyance the Constitution by use of force or show force or by any other unconstitutional means shall be guilty of high treason."

    It would be interesting to note the proceedings as Pervez Musharraf died this year and the Special Court verdict to hang him even after his death for violating the Constitution was not implemented. Pervez Musharraf was in the UAE at the time of the decision by the court and never returned until his death when his body was flown and he was buried in Karachi.

    "We direct the law enforcement agencies to strive their level best to apprehend the fugitive/convict and to ensure that the punishment is inflicted as per law and if found dead, his corpse be dragged to the D-Chowk, Islamabad, Pakistan (a large public square near Pakistan's parliament, presidency, and Supreme Court) and be hanged for 03 days," the verdict read.

    https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/perv...-death-4564587
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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