 MULTAN: The mother of a man sentenced to death for a 2003 attempt to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf begged the military leader on Monday to have mercy on her son.
| "Mercy, sire! Mercy! He's a good lad!" |
âI believe that my son is innocent and I ask President Musharraf to grant him clemency,â Zahoor Mai, mother of 22-year-old Zubair Ahmed, told reporters in Mohallah Islamabad of Kehror Pucca, Lodhran.
| "It's only his first offense, effendi!... Well, his fourth, actually, but the first three weren't much..." |
She said that Zubair was jobless and had gone to Rawalpindi to earn a livelihood for the family but he had disappeared and now the family had come to know that he had been sentenced to death for a murderous attempt on the president.
| "Who knew he was gonna find a job like that?" |
âIt was shocking for us,â said the 45-year-old, adding that it was the first she had heard about her son for 18 months. âIt is impossible that he could do such a thing,â she added. |