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    Pakistani military confirms death penalty for nine militants

    Pakistan says it has confirmed the death sentence of nine militants linked to a series of terrorist attacks across the country.

    "The army chief confirms the death sentence of nine hard-core terrorists involved in killing civilians/law enforcement agencies personnel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and sectarian killings," military spokesman Major General Asim Bajwa said in a brief tweet on Monday.

    The army official announced that the men had been convicted by military courts.

    "One terrorist (was) awarded life imprisonment," Bajwa added.

    The militants were also said to be involved in several other incidents, including attacks on senior army officials and a mosque in the northwestern city of Nowshera.

    The punishments are part of a crackdown on militancy following a massacre at a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar on December 16, 2014 by a group of pro-Taliban gunmen, in which more than 150 people, mostly children, were killed.

    The army announced the first verdicts and sentences from the new courts in April when six militants were condemned to death and another jailed for life, all on terrorism charges.

    Parliament has approved the use of military courts for the next two years, and the Supreme Court endorsed the move last month.

    On August 13, the military announced death sentences for seven more militants for their involvement in the Peshawar school massacre and an attack on a bus carrying members of Pakistan's minority Shia community.

    The Pakistani army has also been waging a full-scale crackdown on militants in the northwestern tribal regions since last June, when a deadly raid on the Karachi International Airport ended the government’s faltering peace talks with the pro-Taliban militants.

    According to Pakistan’s military, more than 2,800 militants have been killed over the past months.

    http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/09...er-Pakhtunkhwa

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    Death penalty: Two murder convicts hanged

    FAISALABAD: Two murder convicts were hanged at Faisalabad Central Jail on Thursday.

    They had murdered two of their cousins on the sessions court premises on February 2, 2001.

    Jail authorities said Muhammad Ikhlaq and Saukat Ali had gunned down their cousins, Tariq Jawed and Zafar Iqbal, in court where they were attending court proceedings.

    Anti-Terrorism Court Judge Chaudhry Muhammad Ikram had sentenced them to death on four counts and had fined them.

    Their appeals against this conviction had been rejected by the High Court and the Supreme Court and later their mercy petitions were turned down by the president.

    Anti-Terrorism Court Special Judge Raja Pervaiz Akhtar had earlier fixed September 11 as the date for their execution but they had obtained an interim stay order from Lahore High Court.

    The court issued death warrants for them after the stay had expired. Before their execution, jail authorities arranged a last meeting with their parents and family members on Wednesday evening.

    Their bodies were later handed over to their heirs.

    http://tribune.com.pk/story/965883/d...nvicts-hanged/

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    Pakistan hangs nine in busy day of executions

    Islamabad: Pakistan on Tuesday executed nine convicts, including four brothers, in the latest hangings since it lifted a moratorium on death penalty last year following the Peshawar carnage.

    The executions were carried out in four cities of the largest province of Punjab - Gujrat, Bahawalpur, Multan and Attock, an official of interior ministry said.

    Two brothers were executed in district jail Gujrat, while separately, another two brothers were sent to the gallows in Bahawalpur.

    A man convicted for murder in a separate case was also hanged in Bahawalpur.

    Two men were hanged in Multan in southern Punjab while a man who had killed two persons in a village of Attock district was hanged in the district jail.

    In all cases, the executed men had exhausted their appeals against conviction and the president had also rejected their mercy petitions.

    None of them was convicted for terrorism.

    Pakistan lifted moratorium on executions in December after the Taliban attacked a school and killed 150 people, mostly students.

    An official of Human Right Commission of Pakistan said that 246 persons were already executed before today's hangings that brings to 255 the total number of convicts on death row who have been sent to the gallows.

    Pakistan has refused to stop hangings despite mounting criticism by the human rights groups, the UN and the EU against implementation of death penalty.

    There are about 8,000 death row prisoners in Pakistan.

    http://zeenews.india.com/news/south-...s_1809792.html
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    Death penalty: Three murder convicts to be executed

    DERA GHAZI KHAN: Three murder convicts are scheduled to be hanged in Dera Ghazi Khan this week. Jail officials said Rana Aslam had murdered his wife on June 6, 1996.

    Two brothers Muhammad Akbar and Hazoor Bakhsh, residents of Fazilpur, had killed Abdus Sattar and Habibullah. A district and sessions court had sentenced them to death sentence and fined Rs50,000.

    http://tribune.com.pk/story/971728/d...o-be-executed/

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    Pakistan hangs another six convicts in Punjab

    ISLAMABAD: Pakistan today hung six people convicted of murder in Punjab province, the third day in a row it has carried out a batch of executions and bringing the total toll since December to more than 240.

    The hangings come as Pakistan’s controversial lifting of a moratorium on executions last year is under growing scrutiny.

    The executions took place in Lahore, Rawalpindi, Multan and Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab today.

    “Two brothers convicted for murder were executed in Dera Ghazi Khan, two convicts were hanged in Adiala while one prisoner was hanged in the prisons of Multan and Lahore,” an official of the Punjab prisons department told AFP.

    The executions were confirmed by officials of the respective prisons.

    Pakistan ended the six-year moratorium after Taliban militants massacred more than 150 people — mostly children — at a school in Peshawar last December.

    Supporters argue that the death penalty is the only effective way to deal with the scourge of militancy in the country.

    But critics say the legal system is unjust, with rampant police torture, poor representation for victims and unfair trials.

    On Tuesday Pakistan executed eight people, and yesterday ttfive, all in central Punjab province.

    http://www.therakyatpost.com/world/2...cts-in-punjab/
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    Death penalty : Five convicts to be hanged on Tuesday

    FAISALABAD/BAHAWALPUR: Three prisoners on death row will be hanged at Faisalabad’s Central Jail on Tuesday.

    The jail spokesperson said on Sunday that Muhammad Akram had killed the father of his paramour in Medina Town. He was sentenced to death by a sessions court.

    Saeed Ahmed of Chak 349-JB and Shahid Mehmood of Ghulam Abad were sentenced to death in other murder cases.

    Their appeals had been dismissed by superior courts. Their mercy petitions were also turned down by the president. The spokesperson said arrangements for their execution were complete and they will meet their families for the last time on Monday.

    In Bahawalpur, two convicts on death row will be executed on Tuesday and another on Wednesday at the Central Jail. Bahawalnagar District and Session Judge Nisar Ahmad has issued death warrants for the convicts.

    Shahid was involved in a murder case in a Chishtian Saddar police precinct. Mustafa had murdered a man in a McLeod Ganj police precinct. A Lodhran district and session judge issued death warrants for Fayyaz to be hanged on October 21. He was convicted of murder in a Kehror Pakka Saddar police precinct.

    http://tribune.com.pk/story/975194/d...ed-on-tuesday/

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    Pakistan hangs nine more convicted prisoners

    Pakistan today hanged another nine prisoners convicted of murders, bringing the total number of executions to more than 260 since December when the government ended its six-year moratorium on the death penalty following the Peshawar school carnage.

    Despite criticism by the international and local right groups, the executions were carried out in jails of Lahore, Attock, Faisalabad, Sargodha and Bahawalpur in the country’s largest Punjab province.

    A provincial Home Department official confirmed the executions.”

    Three men were executed in Attock, two each in Lahore and Faisalabad and one each in Bahawalpur and Sargodha,” he said.

    All condemned prisoners executed today were convicted of murders.

    Last week, 20 persons were executed in various jails.

    Pakistan started execution in December, 2014, after Taliban attacked an army-run school and killed 150 people, mostly students.

    Since then, over 260 people have been hanged.

    There are over 8,000 death-row prisoners in Pakistan.

    The executions have come under intense criticism from the UN, the EU and several local and international rights groups.

    http://news.niticentral.com/2015/10/...ted-prisoners/
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    Here is an interview with one of Pakistan's hangmen.

    August 5, 2015

    The Pakistani hangman and his family tradition

    A day after Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced the end of a seven-year moratorium on executions last year, Sabir Masih found his house surrounded by the paparazzi in Lahore.

    The hangman had encounters with reporters and cameramen before, and would have been happy to share his views on the resumption of hangings on camera, but he was running out of time.

    "I had to reach Faisalabad by the evening of 18 December because they had lined up two convicts for hanging early next morning," he recalls.

    So he threw some clothes in a small shoulder bag, then put on the clothes of his 17-year-old sister, covered his face in a veil and walked right past the TV broadcast vans outside his house to reach the bus stop.

    Just around that time, some 170km (105 miles) to the west, security forces in Faisalabad were taking the two convicts from the city's central jail, which has no gallows, to the district jail.

    These were no ordinary convicts.

    Mohammad Aqeel, alias Dr Usman, had led the audacious 2009 assault on army headquarters in Rawalpindi in which 20 people were killed, while Arshad Mehmood had been convicted for a 2003 assassination attempt on then-President Pervez Musharraf.

    Both were former soldiers and members of Pakistan's feared home-grown militant networks.

    Moratorium lifted

    Meanwhile when he got off the bus in Faisalabad and took a cab to the district jail, Mr Masih had to produce his official executioner's ID several times to get past the roadblocks the army and police had set up to pre-empt any revenge strikes by militants.

    The next day, Aqeel and Mehmood became the first men to be executed in Pakistan in seven years, and it was the 32-year-old Mr Masih who was the hangman.

    There are about 8,000 people on death row in Pakistan, more than any other country in the world, and since December Pakistan has put to death about 200 of them - some convicted of terrorist offences, others of murder.

    Some of the cases have raised concerns over justice. On Tuesday a 23-year-old man, Shafqat Hussain, was executed for a child murder he denied committing.

    His lawyers argued to the end that he had been a boy at the time of the murder and a confession was tortured out of him in custody.

    Since the moratorium was lifted, Mr Masih says he has hanged close to 60 people in more than half a dozen jails in Punjab province. (He was not involved in the execution of Shafqat Hussain, who was put to death in Karachi.)

    Overall, he believes he has executed more than 200 men since 2007, a claim he makes without a hint of remorse in his voice.

    This is probably because he belongs to a family of hangmen - the Pakistani equivalent of the Pierrepoints of Britain, Sansons of France, or Mammu Jallad's family in India.

    Like most executioners from the times of the British Raj, Mr Masih is a Christian. His surname is the local name for Jesus, and is a common surname among Christians of the sub-continent.

    He has sunken and heavily wrinkled eyes, teeth turned yellow from chewing tobacco and a heavy stammer in his speech, but a lean, 5ft 10in frame and bold facial features.

    "Hanging is my family profession," he says. "My father was a hangman, and his father was a hangman, and his father and grandfather before him - since the times of the East India Company."

    Perhaps his most famous ancestor is his grandfather's brother, Tara Masih, the man who hanged Pakistan's first elected prime minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in 1979.

    Tara Masih had to be flown from Bahawalpur to Lahore for the hanging because the executioner in Lahore, Sadiq Masih, Tara's nephew and Sabir's father, excused himself from hanging the popular leader.

    Sabir also says that his grandfather, Kala Masih, hanged Bhagat Singh, a socialist revolutionary and hero of the Indian freedom movement, in 1931.

    But there's a counter claim from members of Mammu Jallad's family in India who say Bhagat Singh was hanged by Ram Rakha, Mammu's grandfather.

    'I feel nothing'


    With this kind of family history, Sabir Masih is dogged by journalists looking for insight into his job, with questions like, do you get sleep the night before you are scheduled to hang a convict? Do you get nightmares afterwards? What did you feel when you hanged your first victim? How do your family and friends view your job?

    "I feel nothing. It's a family thing. My father taught me how to tie the hangman's knot, how many coils etcetera, and he took me along to witness some hangings around the time when I was being recruited."

    His first solo hanging was in July 2007.

    "The only thing that made me nervous was to get the knot right, but the deputy chief of the jail told me not to worry.

    "He made me tie and untie the knot a number of times before the convict was brought to the gallows. When the jailer waved his hand for me to pull the lever, I was focused on him, and didn't see the condemned man fall through the trapdoor."

    It's more or less the same now.

    The condemned prisoner "is read the charges by a magistrate, asked to bathe and offer prayers if he wants, and then walked to the gallows by the jail guards.

    "My only concern is to prepare him at least three minutes before the time of hanging. So I remove his shoes, put a hood on his face, tie his hands and feet, put the noose around his neck, make sure the knot is placed below his left ear, and then wait for the jailer's signal to pull the lever."

    There is no pre-or post-hanging psychological counselling for hangmen, and no limit to the number of hangings one executioner may perform before he is given a break.

    Mr Masih says he doesn't need either.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33773477
    "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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    Official: Pakistan suspends execution of paraplegic inmate

    FAISALABAD, Pakistan (AP) — A prison official says Pakistan has have suspended the execution of the only paraplegic inmate on death row.

    Ahmad Nadeem, the chief of the prison in eastern city of Faisalabad, says he received the order from the Pakistani presidency, hours before Wednesday's scheduled execution.

    It was the fourth time that Abdul Basit's life has been spared on humanitarian grounds. Basit, 43, has been on death row since 2009 for a murder conviction. He became paralyzed from the waist down after contracting meningitis in 2010.

    Nadeem says the government will seek its legal options during the two-month suspension. His mother Nusrat Parveen has asked the government to free her son.

    Amnesty International says Pakistan has executed 300 inmates since it lifted a moratorium on the death penalty late last year.

    http://news.yahoo.com/official-pakis...084117778.html
    "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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    Pakistan hangs 4 militants over school attack

    ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan hanged four convicted militants on Wednesday who were sentenced to death over a Taliban attack on an army-run school last year that killed more than 150 people, mostly children, officials said.

    The two officials said the men were executed at a high-security prison in the northwestern city of Kohat. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media. The four are the first convicted militants to be executed in connection with the school massacre.

    The Dec. 16 attack, which was claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, horrified the country and led the government to lift a 2008 moratorium on the death penalty. However, most of the nearly 300 people hanged since then have been convicted criminals, not militants.

    Parents of children killed in the assault welcomed the executions and demanded that all those connected to the attack be given the same punishment.

    "Today's executions cannot return my son to us, but I am happy to know that at least four terrorists have been hanged for their role in the killing of our children," said a woman who identified herself only as the wife of Arshad Zafar, in keeping with local custom.

    She praised the military for trying, convicting and hanging them ahead of the anniversary of the attack.

    Malik Tahir Awan, who lost his son in the attack, said "all those who played any role in the attack on Army Public School should be hanged."

    "Dec. 16 is not far away, and that was the day when I lost my son. I shall never be able to forget this pain," he told The Associated Press by phone from Peshawar.

    Last month, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif asked Pakistan's president to reject clemency petitions from the four prisoners. Army chief Gen. Raheel Sharif ordered the hangings a few days ago.

    http://www.kivitv.com/news/world/pak...-school-attack
    "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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