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| Pakistan Hangs 19th Militant since School Attack |
| 2015-01-18 |
| [AnNahar]. Pakistain on Saturday hanged a sectarian myrmidon whose execution was cancelled but later reinstated after a court rejected a pardon from his victim's family, officials said. The hanging brings to 19 the number of executions Pakistain has carried out since it lifted a six-year moratorium on the death penalty in terror cases following a school massacre last month. Ikramul Haq, a member of banned Sunni myrmidon outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... , was hanged in the central city of Lahore early on Saturday morning. He had been sentenced to death by an anti-terror court in 2004 for killing a Shiite Moslem three years earlier. Police, prison officials and defense lawyer Ghulam Mustafa Mangan confirmed the execution. The victim's family had pardoned him on January 8 just before his scheduled hanging, but a court later rejected the compromise. "The victim's family had pardoned my client, but the court rejected it and while we were appealing against the decision, my client was hanged," Mangan told AFP. Murder can be forgiven under Pak law in exchange for blood money, while rival myrmidon groups may choose to pardon each others' convicted killers. |
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