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    It is nice to hear that Rimsha is set free but her safety is a concern. She is not safe in Pakistan as that is an extremist country. She should look forward towards reconsidering the offers of the Aid Groups.

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    HRW asks Pak to reinstate moratorium on death penalty

    A leading Human Rights group Wednesday asked Pakistan, which has some 8,000 prisoners on death row, to reinstate its moratorium on the death penalty.

    In Pakistan's first execution in four years, Army soldier Muhammad Hussain was hanged at a jail in Punjab province on November 15, after all of his appeals for mercy were rejected.

    "After a four-year unofficial moratorium, Pakistan has reverted to the odious practice of sending people to the gallows," said Ali Dayan Hasan, Pakistan director at Human Rights Watch.

    "Instead, the government should declare an official moratorium, commute all existing death sentences and then abolish the death penalty for all crimes once and for all," Hasan said.

    The execution in Pakistan prompted UN human rights chief Navi Pillay to express disappointment and sadness as she renewed her call for a moratorium on such practices to be made permanent.

    "The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights opposes the death penalty in any circumstances," Pillay's spokesperson Rupert Colville had said in Geneva.

    Hussain was handed down the death sentence in 2008 by a military court for killing his superior.

    According to UN estimates, Pakistan reportedly has some 8,000 people on death row, one of the largest numbers of prisoners on death row in the world.

    Pillay had urged the Pakistani government to translate the moratorium into a more permanent ban and commute the sentences of several thousand prisoners on death row during her visit to the country in May this year.

    While under military rule, Pakistan each year executed among the highest number of people of any country. For example, according to Amnesty International, in 2005 Pakistan sentenced more than 241 people to death and executed at least 31, the fifth highest total in the world.

    http://zeenews.india.com/news/south-...ty_812124.html
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    SC seeks details of death row prisoners

    The Supreme Court directed the government on Tuesday to submit details about prisoners on death row in the country.

    The order was issued by a three-judge bench comprising Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Justice Tariq Parvez and Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan on a petition filed by Barrister Zafarullah Khan of the Watan Party who had drawn the court’s attention to the ordeal faced by such inmates.

    The petition pointed out that 6,355 prisoners were awaiting execution in Punjab alone.

    Barrister Khan regretted that the prisoners were suffering because the government was still pondering over the issue of commuting the pending death sentences into life term.

    He informed the bench that appeals of 896 of the 6,355 prisoners on death row against their convictions were pending before the Supreme Court.

    The president was seized with about 355 mercy petitions on which he had to make up his mind, he said, adding that the GHQ was seized with appeals of four military personnel and the Federal Shariat Court 27 appeals.

    The PPP government, which had announced moratorium on executions since November 2008, carried out its first execution this year when Mohammed Hussain, a soldier who was convicted and sentenced to death in 2009 for murdering one of his colleagues, was hanged in November.

    This is not the first time that the ordeal of inmates on death row has been highlighted before the Supreme Court. In 2008, the court had taken up a suo motu notice on a news report that 7,000 inmates on death row were waiting for execution. The court had asked the government if it was serious about bringing out any legislation to commute death sentence into life term.

    On June 21, 2008, former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had announced that his government would recommend to the president to commute death sentence of thousands of prisoners into life imprisonment as part of a birthday tribute to slain PPP leader Benazir Bhutto.

    According to reports, 62 countries in the world still maintain death penalty while 92 countries have abolished it completely. Ten countries retain it but only for the crimes committed during war times.

    During the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto government in the 1070s, life sentence was increased to 25 from 14 years with an idea to completely abolish the capital punishment in the years to come.

    But the Ziaul Haq regime retained both the 25-year life sentence and the death penalty.

    http://dawn.com/2012/12/12/sc-seeks-...row-prisoners/
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    81 percent Pakistanis favour death sentence

    Majority of Pakistanis are in favour of the death sentence, a Gallup survey has revealed.

    In the survey, a nationally representative sample of men and women from across the four provinces was asked “In your opinion, should there be death sentence in Pakistan?”

    Responding to this, 81 percent said yes whereas 10 percent said no. However, 9 percent did not give a view.

    The study, released by Gilani foundation and carried out by Gallup Pakistan, was carried out among a sample of 2667 men and women in rural and urban areas of all four provinces of the country, during November 26, 2012 – December 03, 2012.

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    7,046 death row inmates awaiting execution, SC told

    The Supreme Court was informed on Wednesday that 7,046 inmates on death row are awaiting execution across the country.

    The Interior Ministry, through the attorney general of Pakistan's office, on Wednesday submitted complete details of the prisoners on death row in different prisons of the country. Petitioner Barrister Zafarullah Khan of the Watan Party has drawn the Supreme Court's attention to the ordeal faced by such inmates. According to the details provided by the ministry, 5,378 appeals against the death sentence are pending in the provincial high courts and 1,031 in the Supreme Court.

    The province-wise breakdown of death row prisoners is: Punjab, 4,981; Sindh, 266; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 102; and Balochistan, 29. Meanwhile, 532 mercy applications are pending before the president. It has also been learnt that the president has stopped the implementation of 78 capital punishment sentences, whereas the GHQ has pending with it appeals of six military personnel, while the Federal Shariat Court has 21 appeals.

    It is noteworthy that the PPP government, which had announced a moratorium on executions in November 2008, carried out its first execution last year when Muhammed Hussain, a soldier who was convicted and sentenced to death in 2009 for murdering one of his colleagues, was hanged in November 2012. This is not the first time that the ordeal of inmates on death row has been highlighted before the Supreme Court. In 2008, the court had taken up a suo motu notice on a news report that 7,000 inmates on death row were waiting for their execution.

    The court had asked the government if it was serious about bringing out any legislation to commute death sentences into life term. On June 21, 2008, former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani had announced that his government would recommend to the president to commute death sentence of thousands of prisoners into life imprisonment as part of a birthday tribute to slain PPP leader Benazir Bhutto. According to reports, 62 countries in the world still maintain death penalty, while 92 countries have abolished it completely. Ten countries retain it, but only for the crimes committed during war times.

    During the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto government in the 1970s, life sentence was increased to 25 years from 14 years with the aim to completely abolish capital punishment in the years to come. But the Ziaul Haq regime retained both the 25-year life sentence and death penalty.

    http://paktribune.com/news/7046-deat...ld-257822.html
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    Four cops hurt as death row inmate escapes

    A death row inmate escaped as armed men attacked the police outside Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) on Monday, leaving four policemen among seven people injured, Eidgah police said.

    The convict, Abdul Qayyum, was admitted to the hospital in the morning and four policemen –ASI Abdul Khaliq and constables Dildar Hussain, Tariq and Shoaib – were deployed for his security, said Eidgah SDPO Chaudhry Pervez Iqbal.

    At the hospital, the convict asked the policemen to take him out for a walk and lunch. The police escorted him to a nearby burger shop on Baba-e-Urdu Road outside the CHK, the officer said.

    In the meantime, four armed men arrived at the place and opened fire. As the policemen returned fire, the public panicked and in the ensuing commotion, the prisoner managed to escape. All the four policemen suffered bullet wounds while three passers-by were also hurt, Iqbal said.

    The victims were shifted to the Civil hospital, where doctors termed their condition stable.

    Qayyum was arrested by the Gulshan-e-Iqbal police in a murder case in 2000. A court convicted the accused and announced death penalty. He was imprisoned at the Karachi Central Jail. The SDPO said that raids were being conducted to arrest the accused.

    http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-New...inmate-escapes
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    Pakistan: Man stoned to death for affair with a teenage girl

    A soldier has been stoned to death in Pakistan's restive tribal northwest over allegations of an affair with a teenage girl, officials said on Wednesday.

    A tribal council in the town of Parachinar, close to the Afghan border in Kurram district, ordered the sentence on Anwar-ud Din, who was about 25 years old, for having "illicit relations" with a local girl.

    "There were some 40 to 50 people who hit the man with stones till he bled to death," a local tribesman told AFP on condition of anonymity.

    Relations between men and women without family approval are considered immoral by many in Pakistan, particularly in the deeply conservative northwestern tribal areas.

    Hundreds are killed around the country each year in the name of defending family "honour", but stonings are extremely rare.

    Din was accused of having an affair with an 18-year-old girl and meeting her secretly, but both were caught on Sunday in a graveyard, the tribesman told AFP.

    The soldier admitted he had met the girl three or more times before and the punishment was carried out on Tuesday in the graveyard where the pair were discovered, the tribesman said, adding that the body was later taken to hospital.

    Local government and security officials confirmed the incident, but declined to comment.

    The fate of the girl remains unclear, but there were rumours in the area that she may also be executed, although she denied the affair, the tribesman said.

    A hospital official confirmed that they had received a mutilated body on Tuesday, which was later taken away by paramilitary forces.

    "It was really a horrific sight. The body had been badly damaged after being hit by stones. Wounds all over and the face could no longer be recognised," the official said.

    Pakistan's seven tribal districts bordering Afghanistan do not have a regular legal system.
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    Court acquits Christian on death row for blasphemy

    LAHORE: A Pakistani court has acquitted a Christian man who was sentenced to death for blasphemy six years ago in the country’s second largest city, lawyers said Thursday.

    Younis Masih, 34, a labourer, was arrested in September 2005 in the low-income Qenchi Amar Siddhu neighbourhood of Lahore after local residents accused him of interrupting a gathering of Sufi singing to make blasphemous remarks.

    Masih’s lawyer, Naeem Shakir, said his client was sentenced to death in May 2007 and fined 100,000 rupees ($1,000), but appealed to the high court in Lahore.

    “The high court on Wednesday decided to overturn the death sentence and ordered that Masih be acquitted,” Shakir told AFP.

    “I argued the case in February and put to the court that there is no direct evidence against Younis Masih and that the case was based on hearsay,” he said.

    Blasphemy is a very sensitive issue in Pakistan, where 97 percent of the 180 million population are Muslims, and even unproven allegations can spark a violent public backlash.

    Rights campaigners argue the blasphemy laws, for which the maximum penalty is death, are often abused to settle personal scores and should be reformed.

    Shakir said his client would be freed “in a couple of days” after he obtained a written copy of the decision and a detailed judgement.

    The deputy prosecutor general confirmed the acquittal.

    Nadeem Anthony, a lawyer working for the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan also confirmed the acquittal and hailed the high court decision.

    Last month, more than 3,000 furious Muslims rampaged through the Joseph Colony area of Lahore, looting property and burning buildings after a Christian was accused of blasphemy.

    Surrounding Punjab province was also the scene of one of the worst outbreaks of anti-Christian violence when a mob burned 77 houses and killed seven people in the town of Gojra in 2009 after rumours that a Quran had been desecrated.

    http://tribune.com.pk/story/531069/c...for-blasphemy/
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    Pakistan reinstates the death penalty

    The government of Pakistan has decided to bring back the death penalty in the wake of an uptick in militant violence, ending a 2008 moratorium that expired on June 20th that was widely praised by human rights groups.

    "The present government does not plan to extend it," said Omar Hamid Khan, an interior ministry spokesman of the moratorium, according to Reuters, noting that current Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government intends to execute all death row prisoners, barring those who have been given an exception for human rights reasons.

    “We will examine every single case on merit and send five to ten cases to the presidency every day… there will be no general amnesty for convicts waiting for executions,” said a government spokesperson, according to AFP, adding that the government would show sympathy to "women, children, and the elderly" as they made these choices.

    A soldier who had been convicted by court martial was put to death in November 2012, but the moratorium did not officially end until late June. Up to 450 people arecurrently awaiting execution.

    The former moratorium was largely held up by the Pakistan People's Party, which was defeated in the May elections by the Pakistan Muslim League-N party, which is headed by Prime Minister Sharif.

    "Any government green light to resume executions in Pakistan would be a shocking and retrograde step, putting thousands of people’s lives at risk,” said Polly Truscott, Amnesty International’s Deputy Asia Pacific Director, in a statement.

    “The sheer number of people at risk makes the new government policy of turning back to the death penalty even more horrendous,” added Truscott.

    Amnesty says that Pakistan currently has over 8,000 prisoners on death row awaiting execution, and many have already exhausted the appeals process.

    http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/n...-death-penalty
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    This along with other recent examples flies in the face of claims made by Amnesty International and others that all the world is moving in the direction of abolition. By my count there are at least a half dozen countries that have resumed executions in the last year.

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