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Saulat Mirza executed at Balochistan's Machh Jail
[DAWN] Convicted murderer Saulat Mirza was hanged to death in the early hours of Tuesday at Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Machh Jail. Mirza had been on death row for nearly 17 years. Sentenced to death in 1999, Mirza was initially scheduled to be executed on March 19 this year after Pakistain lifted its moratorium on capital punishment in the wake of the 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. school massacre. But in a dramatic turn of events, video footage of Mirza hurling grave allegations at Altaf Hussain ...think of the head of the Barzini clan, only in Urdu... and other MQM leaders of complicity in crime was aired on television channels just few hours before his execution on March 19. The president immediately stayed his hanging for three days after the convict sought more time to give information regarding hit mans and their alleged patrons. A few days later, Mirza's hanging was put off again as authorities wished to interrogate him for crucial details in relation to his confession. Posted by: Fred 2015-05-12 |
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