[DAWN] A condemned prisoner belonging to the banned bad boy outfit of the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain...a Sunni Deobandi organization, a formerly registered Pak political party, established in the early 1980s in Jhang by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi. Its stated goal is to oppose Shia influence in Pakistain. They're not too big on Brelvis, either. Or Christians. Or anybody else who's not them. The organization was
bannedin 2002 as a terrorist organization, but somehow it keeps ticking along, piling up the corpse counts...
convicted of killing a former police officer and his son is set to be sent to the gallows in the early hours of Thursday at the Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
central prison.
Mohammad Saeed was sentenced to death by an antiterrorism court in April 2001 for murdering retired deputy superintendent of police Syed Sabir Hussain Shah and his young son Syed Abid Hussain Shah in an ambush near the Malir city railway crossing.
The appeals of the convict against capital punishment were dismissed by the higher judiciary. The president also turned down his mercy petition.
On a request of the jail authorities, the trial court had issued a black warrant on Jan 3 for the execution of death row prisoner and asked the jail officials to carry out the hanging under the supervision of a judicial magistrate on Jan 15 at 6:30am.
A jail official said they had arranged the last meeting of the death row convict with his family while all other arrangements had also been finalised for the hanging of the bad boy on Thursday. A district and sessions judge appointed a judicial magistrate to supervise the execution, he said, adding that the convict belonged to proscribed Death Eater group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain.
It will be the second hanging at the prison after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
lifted a moratorium on executions on Dec 17 in the wake of the devastating attack on Army Public School in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
. Earlier on Jan 13, Behram Khan was hanged for killing a lawyer in 2003.
Behrams was the first hanging at the central prison since Feb 20, 2008 when Javed Malik was hanged for killing one Amir Kakar in Gulshan-e-Iqbal while extorting money from him in 1997.