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Public hanging of child rapists & murderers considered as Pakistan mourns 7yo victim
 [RT] A Pak Senate committee has proposed to publicly hang those who sexually abuse or murder children. The measure is a response to the gruesome case of a Pak 7-year-old girl who was raped and killed earlier in January.Part of the Pak Penal Code (PPC) on the punishment of child rapists and murderers currently states: "Whoever kidnaps or abducts any person under the age of 14 in order that such person may be murdered or subjected to grievous hurt... shall be punished with death (sic)." Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Interior Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. is now seeking to add the phrase "by hanging publicly" after the word "death." The amendment has been proposed just one day after Pak authorities locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! a key suspect behind the murder of 7-year-old Zainab Ansari. The girl was kidnapped and later found raped and murdered near the eastern city of Lahore earlier in January. The case prompted mass protests and shockwaves across the country, with demonstrators accusing the government of inaction. Posted by: Fred 2018-01-26 |
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