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| PHC suspends death penalty awarded by military court |
| 2015-08-26 |
| [DAWN] 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. High Court (PHC) on Tuesday suspended the execution of a death-row prisoner, who was sentenced to death by a military court after he was found to be involved in terrorism. Haider Ali, now 21 years old, was tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! by security forces in 2009, when he was 14 years old and a 10th grade student at the Malakand Public High School, Swat. "The Peshawar High Court has ordered the military court to halt the execution of my client Haider Ali, who was awarded the death sentence by a military court on August 13," Ajmal Khan, lawyer of the death row convict told AFP. Ali's hanging was suspended after his parents filed a petition in PHC, challenging his death sentence. |
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