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| Eight convicts hanged in Punjab |
| 2015-10-14 |
| [DAWN] MULTAN: At least eight convicted men were hanged on Tuesday for murder, officials said, bringing the total number of people executed since the moratorium was lifted on death penalty to more than 230 since December. The executions - including two sets of brothers - took place in four cities in the province of Punjab: Attock, Gujrat, Multan and Bahawalpur. Two brothers, Mohammad Azam and Mohammad Aslam, were hanged in Gujrat; while another two brothers, Ghulam Qadir and Ghulam Sarwar, were executed in Bahawalpur for murdering two relatives, prison officials said. Double murder convict Muhammad Ashraf was hanged in Attock, two men were executed in Multan, and the eighth was also hanged in Bahawalpur, the officials added. Pakistain lifted its moratorium on the death penalty in all capital cases on March 10. 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. Initially executions were resumed for terrorism offences only in the wake of a Taliban massacre at an army-run 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. which had claimed the lives of more than 150 persons, mostly schoolchildren, on December 16, 2014. The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... , the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... have called on Pakistain to re-impose its moratorium on the death penalty. |
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