Sipah-e-Sahaba activist hanged in Lahore

[Bomber]

AHORE: Ikramul Haq, an activist of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), was hanged at Kot Lakhpat Central Jail in Lahore on Saturday morning for his involvement in a sectarian killing in 2001, Express News reported.
The hanging brings to 19 the number of executions Pakistan has carried out since it lifted a six-year moratorium on the death penalty in terror cases following a school massacre last month.

Haq execution was cancelled but later reinstated after a court rejected a pardon from his victim’s family, officials said.

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Haq had been sentenced to death by an anti-terror court in 2004 for killing a Shia three years earlier.

Police, prison officials and defence lawyer Ghulam Mustafa Mangan confirmed the execution.

The victim’s family had pardoned him on January 8 just before his scheduled hanging, but a court later rejected the compromise.

“The victim’s family had pardoned my client, but the court rejected it and while we were appealing against the decision, my client was hanged,” Mangan told AFP.

Murder can be forgiven under Pakistani law in exchange for blood money, while rival militant groups may choose to pardon each others’ convicted killers.

The United Nations, the European Union, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have called on Pakistan to re-impose its moratorium on the death penalty, which ran from 2008 until December 2014.

Rights campaigners say Pakistan overuses its anti-terror laws and courts to prosecute ordinary crimes.

There are also concerns that death row convicts from non-terror related cases could be executed.

Taliban gunmen stormed an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar last month, killing 150 people, mostly children, in the country’s deadliest ever militant attack.

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In addition to ending its death penalty moratorium, Pakistan has since moved to set up military courts to try terror cases.

 

[Green Arrow]

First good news in the morning

 

[Kompromat]

This treat has a special tone to it.

 

[Mujahid Memon]

The United Nations, the European Union, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have called on Pakistan to re-impose its moratorium on the death penalty, which ran from 2008 until December 2014.

do your own $hit........

 

[Bomber]

do your own $hit........

yea these bastards sends their agents to pakistan now they want to protect them .... first they said that it is internal matter now they are interfering again .....................Moroooons

 

[Jazzbot]

Great news, good to see these sectarian killers finally facing punishment.

 

[Slav Defence]

Excellent,
Brilliant to heat that such terrorists are finally being hanged. I consider these people as more destructive for future of Pakistan rather than outsiders because these people are making us weak and vulnerable. Such organizations are acting as one of those factors due to which a nation self-destructs.
Regards