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    Killer of three to be hanged in Hairpur jail today

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    HARIPUR: A man convicted of triple murder would be hanged in Central Jail Haripur on Thursday (today), jail sources said here on Wednesday.

    According to prosecution record, Saiful Islam, a resident of Akbar Abad Kalay area of Mardan, had committed triple murder and injured two others during a jirga that was called to resolve a property dispute between the rival parties. He was convicted by the court of additional district judge Mardan in 2006.

    He appealed the verdict in the Peshawar High Court and later in the Supreme Court, but the verdict of capital punishment remained upheld.

    Jail sources said his mercy petition was also dismissed from the office of president of Pakistan and his black warrants were issued from the home and tribal affairs department Peshawar two days ago.

    The last meeting of the condemned prisoner was held with his family in the death cell on Wednesday.

    https://www.dawn.com/news/1389492

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    He was hanged.
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    Parents call for public execution as serial killer paedophile sentenced to death in Pakistan

    A Pakistani court on Saturday sentenced a serial killer to death after finding him guilty of killing eight children, including a 7-year-old girl whose rape and murder drew nationwide condemnation and triggered violent protests.

    Mohammad Imran, 24, pleaded guilty during a five-day trial at a high-security prison in Lahore, public prosecutor Ehtesham Qadir told reporters.

    Imran was arrested in January, two weeks after authorities say he raped and killed 7-year-old Zainab Ansari and threw her body into a garbage dump in the city of Kasur.

    Anger over her murder saw local residents attacked a police station, sparking clashes in which two people were killed.

    Zainab disappeared in the first week of January while walking to a Quranic studies class. She was staying with relatives at the time because her parents had gone to Saudi Arabia for pilgrimage.

    Her body was found on January 9.

    Her parents quickly returned home, but by that time their daughter's body had been found and preparations for her funeral and burial were underway amid tight security.

    Imran was arrested after his DNA was found to match samples taken from her body.

    He told investigator that he lured the girl by telling her that her parents had come back and that she should go with him to meet them.

    He received four death sentences for eight murders on Saturday.

    Mr Qadir said Imran had the right to appeal, but may not challenge the verdict as he confessed to his crimes during the trial.

    "Imran even today told the court that he killed the eight girls," Mr Qadir said.

    He did not say how Imran's execution would be carried out. There have been calls for him to be publicly hanged.

    Zainab's parents welcomed the sentence and called for a public execution.

    "He should be stoned to death," Nusrat Ansari, Zainab's mother, said.

    Mohammed Amin Ansari, Zainab's father, was present when the court announced the decision.

    He thanked the judiciary, government and investigators for giving him speedy justice. He also called for a public execution.

    "My daughter has gone, she will not come back, but I want to save daughters of other people," he said.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018...eath-pakistan/

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    Condemned Prisoner Executed In Faisalabad

    By Sumaira FH
    Urdu Point

    FAISALABAD (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News) - A condemned prisoner was executed in Central Jail Faisalabad on Tuesday. According to Prisons Department, Zahid Iqbal had murdered three persons Rehana, Anayat Ali and Haris over a minor dispute in 2005 and the session court had awarded him death sentence on three counts.

    The apex court also upheld the decision of the trial court whereas the President also turned down his mercy appeal. After the rejection of mercy petition, death warrants were issued against the condemned prisoner Zahid Iqbal and the court fixed April 10 for implementation on his execution. Later, the body was handed over to his heirs after completing necessary formalities.

    https://www.urdupoint.com/en/pakista...ad-310484.html

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    Despite having power, president summarily rejects clemency petitions

    The Express Tribune

    ISLAMABAD: With over 3,000 prisoners currently on death row and another 500 finding their clemency petitions rejected by the president, top human rights officials of the government have acknowledged that there was a need to improve the clemency process, and to abandon a blanket policy to bring it in line with constitutional and international obligations.

    This was stated on Wednesday at the launch of a report by Justice Project Pakistan (JPP) titled ‘No Mercy: A Report on Clemency for Death Row Prisoners in Pakistan’.

    Chaudhry Shafique, the commissioner of the National Commission on Human Rights, stated that the clemency process in Pakistan was deficient.

    “The President’s power of mercy is critical for ensuring justice under Pakistan’s criminal justice system,” he stated.

    He added that during a recent hearing of the Senate Committee on Human Rights last month, it was recommended that the NCHR, the Ministry of Law and Justice, Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Human Rights, examine petitions before sending it to the President.

    The Canadian High Commissioner to Pakistan Perry Calderwood reiterated that Canada opposes the death penalty in all cases, everywhere.

    “We encourage the abolition of the death penalty internationally,” he said.

    “The debate on capital punishment in Pakistan occurs in a global context, but it is also local and specific to this country. It is a debate led by Pakistani citizens,” Calderwood remarked.

    JPP’s report found that in the three years since a moratorium on the death penalty was lifted — in the aftermath of the attack on the Army Public School in December 2014— the government has executed nearly 500 prisoners.

    While President Mamnoon Hussain has the authority to pardon death row defendants under Article 45 of the Constitution, in practice, he has hardly approved any of the petitions filed since the moratorium was lifted, operating under a blanket policy even for cases with strong evidence of humanitarian abuses and violations.

    According to the Interior Ministry, the President’s office has so far rejected 513 mercy petitions of condemned prisoners over the past five years. Of these, 444 had been filed in the first 15 months after the resumption of executions.

    At the moment, as many as 74 mercy petitions from death row prisoners are pending with the President.

    The report claimed that these figures were particularly alarming given that the interior ministry had reportedly informally confirmed that the government has a de facto policy of summarily rejecting all pleas of mercy.

    The report found that 83 per cent of all executions and 89 per cent of all death sentences handed out since the moratorium was lifted have been in Punjab. Of the approximately 3,723 prisoners on death row waiting for the execution of their sentences, mercy petitions of 41 (including a woman) have been rejected as of July 2017, and 382 prisoners have been executed in the province.

    The report expressed the fear that this figure could soon include paraplegic death row prisoner Abdul Basit, or the mentally ill Imdad Ali or even juvenile offender Muhammad Iqbal.

    Sarah Belal, the executive director of JPP added that the right to seek pardon belongs to the people.

    “As citizens, death row prisoners have the unqualified right to seek pardon, and the presidency has an obligation to consider their petitions on merit and not to summarily reject them,” she said, adding that pardoning the most vulnerable prisoners would be a critical step to demonstrate a meaningful application of this responsibility.

    https://tribune.com.pk/story/1683431...ncy-petitions/

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    Two Condemned Prisoners To Be Hanged On April 19

    By Fakhir Rizvi
    Urdu Point and Pakistan Point News

    SARGODHA - Two death row prisoners will be executed at district jail Sargodha on April 19 (Thursday). Jail authorities said on Monday that Amjad Ali and Khizar Hayat, residents of village Kaisupur, Tehsil Bhalwal had murdered their three relatives Muhammad Aslam, Muhammad Ramzan and their sister Bushra Bibi and injured another sister Bashiran Bibi over family feud in 2005.

    District and Sessions Judge Sargodha, Amir Muhammad Khan has issued black warrants of the condemned prisoners after the President of Pakistan had rejected their appeal of mercy.

    https://www.urdupoint.com/en/pakista...il-316381.html

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    Executions in Pakistan

    The Nation

    An international report published by Amnesty International named, “Death Sentences and Executions 2017” mentioned that in the duration of four years the death penalty was revived in Pakistan and an estimated 500 prisoners have been executed while more than 7,000 inmates languish on death row.

    In 2017 Pakistan has reached his highest level of execution in its history, approximately, 60 executions occurred in 2017 and the report lists Pakistan as one of the five topmost global executioners in the world.

    Death penalty has been raised and with the rise in capital punishment and in the past a horrifying case happened when the Supreme Court of Pakistan acquitted two brothers on death row of murder only to find out that they had already been hanged a year earlier.

    The government should implement such laws where no one is hanged to death and justice is retained in the country.

    https://nation.com.pk/21-May-2018/ex...ns-in-pakistan
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    Imran Ali Sentenced to Death

    By Pak Tribune

    An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Monday handed Imran Ali — who is currently incarcerated and on death-row for the rape and murder of six-year-old Zainab Amin — the death penalty on five more counts for the rape and murder of two other girls.

    Ali, a resident of Kasur, was involved in at least nine incidents of rape-cum-murder of minors, including Zainab, which he had confessed to during her murder investigation.

    ATC Judge Sajjad Ahmad Sheikh handed down the penalty judgement after the prosecution established the role of 24-year-old Ali in the rape and murder charges framed in cases 352/16 and 188/17.

    In case 352/16 registered in April 2016, he was sentenced to one count of death, two counts of 25 years of rigorous imprisonment, one count of two years RI and one count of one year RI under PPC Sections 376(3), 364-A, 337-A(1), and 337-F(1), and Anti-Terrorism Act Section 7(c).

    He was also ordered to pay a fine of Rs1,500,000 and Rs75,000 under daman (compensation determined by the court to be paid by the offender to the victim for causing hurt not liable to arsh, the compensation specified for offences relating to various kinds of hurt).

    Failure to pay the fines will result in an additional six months of imprisonment.

    In case 188/17 filed in Feb 2017, he received four counts of death, and one count of life imprisonment under PPC Sections 364-A (kidnapping or abducting a person under the age of fourteen), 376(3) (rape of minor), 302-B (punishment for qatl-i-amd), and 377 (unnatural offences); and Section 7(a) ATA (punishment for acts of terrorism).

    He was also ordered to pay three fines of Rs1,000,000 each and Rs1,000,000 as compensation to the victim's heirs. In case of failure to pay any of the amounts, he he will have to undergo an additional six months imprisonment.

    On Saturday, the ATC handed Ali the death sentence on 12 counts for the rape and murder of three other minor girls.

    Three more cases remain pending against Ali.

    Zainab's rape and murder earlier this year had sparked outrage and protests across the country after the six-year-old, who went missing on January 4, was found dead in a trash heap in Kasur on January 9.

    Her case was the twelfth such incident to occur within a 10 kilometre radius in the city over a 12-month period.

    The heinous nature of the crime had seen immediate riots break out in Kasur — in which two people were killed — while #JusticeforZainab became a rallying cry for an end to violence against children.

    The Punjab government had declared the arrest of Ali, the prime suspect, on January 23.

    On June 12, the Supreme Court rejected Ali's appeal against the death sentence handed to him for the rape and murder of Zainab, noting that the petitioner had admitted committing similar offences with eight other minor victims and "in that backdrop, he did not deserve any sympathy in the matter of his sentences".

    http://paktribune.com/news/Imran-Ali...ts-281174.html

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    Sri Lanka to seek execution of five death row convicts in Pakistan

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    COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will soon resume executions after a 42-year moratorium but will send home five Pakistanis sentenced to death for drug smuggling for execution in their home country, President Maithripala Sirisena said Wednesday.

    The five are among 18 people, including a woman, on death row for drug offences whose execution will go ahead, according to Sirisena. He did not give a date for the first hanging.

    “I am determined to carry out the death penalty for serious drug offenders and I will start with a list (of 18) given to me by the prisons,” he told a public meeting in the north of the country.

    Sirisena said he would hold talks with talks with Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan on repatriating the condemned Pakistanis and having them executed there.

    He gave no further details on the feasibility of such a move.

    International rights groups and the European Union have asked Sri Lanka to reconsider since Sirisena announced last month that he wanted to end the moratorium on hanging.

    Police believe the Indian Ocean island is being used as a transit point by drug traffickers. More than a tonne of cocaine seized in recent years was destroyed by police in January.

    Official figures show there were 373 convicts on death row in Sri Lanka, including the 18 drug offenders, as of last month.

    Death sentences are still passed for crimes including murder, rape and drug-related offences but the last execution was in 1976.

    Nearly 900 people are in prison after being sentenced to death, although many have had their sentences commuted to life or are appealing.

    https://tribune.com.pk/story/1786452...icts-pakistan/

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    Ex-judge sentenced to death in murder case

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    KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court here on Saturday handed down death penalty to a former district judge, Sikandar Lashari, in a case pertaining to the murder of his fellow judge’s son in Hyderabad.

    The then district and session judge Mithi, Sikandar Lashari, was among half a dozen accused charged with the murder of 19-year-old Aqib Shahani, son of judge Khalid Hussain Shahani on February 19, 2014.

    He was taken into custody on March 5 after the Sindh High Court suspended him from his post.

    According to the case (FIR 12/2014) lodged on a complaint of the deceased’s cousin Hunain, Aqib, alias Kashif, was driving his car when armed men in another car intercepted him on Thandi Sarak, Hyderabad.

    They took him out of his car and sprayed him with bullets. He was shot dead in front of his mother, Shamsunissa, sisters, Komal and Nimra, and a cousin, Hunain, near Niaz Cricket Stadium on February 19, 2014.

    The FIR was registered at GOR police station under sections 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code and Section 6/7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.

    The former judge was charged with allegedly instigating the killing since the deceased was reportedly in love with one of his daughters, according to the prosecution.

    A number of accused had been declared proclaimed offenders in the case.

    https://arynews.tv/en/former-judge-d...y-murder-case/

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    SC has overturned 85pc death sentences since 2014: JPP

    KARACHI: The Supreme Court has overturned a whopping 85 per cent of death sentences since December 2014, revealed data analysis by the Justice Project Pakistan (JPP).

    Dawn

    However, it added, despite a significant drop in the death row population, Pakistan’s use of the death penalty was among the harshest in the world, accounting for 26pc of the world’s death row, 13pc of global executions and 14pc of worldwide death sentences.

    In their latest report named ‘Counting the Condemned’ by the JPP — a non-governmental organisation working for prisoner’s rights — analysed Pakistan’s use of the death penalty and underscored the need for reforms.

    Mostly citing faulty investigations and mistrials, a special appellate bench — formed by the apex court to adjudicate murder appeals — overturned 467 death sentences in 546 appeals, the report found.

    Report reveals every fourth person on death row in the world is a Pakistani

    According to the JPP, since the six-year moratorium was lifted in December 2014, Pakistan carried out 13pc of all global executions. Since 2009, at least 19,767 people have been sentenced to death globally. In that time, Pakistan’s courts have sentenced 2,705 people to death which accounts for 14pc of death sentences worldwide.

    From 2015 to 2017, 3,659 executions were carried out globally and Pakistan accounted for 13pc of those, with 479 executions. In 2015 alone, Pakistan executed 20pc of the global executions, the data analysis revealed, adding that every fourth person on death row in the world is a Pakistani.

    As per the report, 496 prisoners have been hanged so far in the country and that, since 2004, Pakistan has sentenced 4,500 people to death at an average of one death per day.

    In another startling revelation, the report found that the official number of prisoners on death row in Pakistan had dropped to 4,688 in 2018, from 7,164 in 2012. This, it added, can be best explained by the reduction in the death row population of Punjab — from 6,604 in 2012 to 3,890 presently. Despite this, Punjab accounted for 81pc of executions from December 2014 to December 2017, and 89pc of all death sentences issued during the same period.

    The JPP found that in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Sindh, death row populations had increased at a steady rate.

    The decrease in death row and the continuing rise of death sentences, the report stated, suggested a disconnect between the sentencing/trial courts and the appellate courts. However, a single bench remained inadequately equipped to address the plight of the wrongfully sentenced on death row.

    The study found that on average a prisoner had to spend 11 years on death row before the commutation of death sentence or acquittal by the Supreme Court. And, it added, Pakistan continued to dispense death sentences at a rate higher than the world average. Since 2004, Pakistan has handed down at least 4,500 death sentences.

    Civil disputes involving a homicide dominate the category of cases that result in death sentences.

    An analysis of 150 executions from 2015 by the JPP found that disputes over land or money accounted for 36pc, and family disputes for 26pc.

    This, the JPP stated, indicated that failure to resolve civil issues in a timely manner — in what often becoming expensive legal battles — motivated people to take matters into their own hands, breeding the violence that led to death sentences.

    Where there is no empirical evidence present that death penalty deters crime or terrorism, a closer look at the data from the past two decades drew attention to a strong correlation between economic inequality, political violence and instability and murder rates. This strong link was evident from the fact that murder rate in Pakistan remained at 7.5 per 100,000 or higher in the years where per-capita GDP growth remained less than two per cent.

    “The facts are before us. The system is imperfect,” said JPP Executive Director Sarah Belal, adding, “(it’s) mired in red tape. Too many mistakes are being made, and the Supreme Court overturning convictions at such a high rate is damning proof of that. A detailed reform of the death penalty is urgently needed, and until it is completed, a moratorium must be installed.”

    Recommendations

    The JPP called for reduction in the scope of the death penalty by excluding non-lethal crimes. It recommended that judicial academies must train newly appointed trial court judges on the use and application of the death penalty in line with “the most serious” offences standard.

    Trial and sentencing proceedings must be bifurcated to determine whether the defendant had committed the crime and what was the appropriate punishment, it added.

    The JPP also recommended reforms for adjudicating civil disputes to decrease the length of time it took to resolve them. It called for constituting a committee to review mercy petitions comprising representatives from respective ministries to reduce the number of wrongful executions.

    https://www.dawn.com/news/1436906/sc...since-2014-jpp

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