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Pakistan to hang Briton during royal couple's visit
2006-10-19
"That's entertaaaaaainment!"
Pakistan is due to hang a British national on November 1, coinciding with a planned visit by Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, officials said yesterday.

Mirza Tahir Hussain, 36, from Leeds in northern England, has spent half his life in a Pakistani jail fighting a death sentence for killing a taxi driver. The decision on his fate follows three stays of execution ordered by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and comes despite a vocal campaign by Hussain's family to save his life. "Mirza Tahir Hussain's new execution date is November 1," an official at Adiala Prison in Rawalpindi, a garrison city adjoining the capital Islamabad, told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Posted by:Fred

#2  This guy's been on death row for 18 years? Pakiland is as slow as the US! Wonder why Perv stayed his execution three times - was the taxi driver who was killed on the Musharraf 'enemies' list?
Posted by: Glenmore   2006-10-19 07:39  

#1  In the 1870s, the British diplomat/explorer/writer Richard Frances Burton paid a visit to a local king in West Africa. The king was very cordial, reported Burton, and even had a man crucified in his honor. I am pleased to see that this fine old British diplomatic tradition continues.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2006-10-19 02:53  

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