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India-Pakistan
Saulat Mirza to be hanged on April 1
2015-03-25
[ARABNEWS] A Pakistain court officials said on Tuesday that Saulat Mirza, a former MQM activist, would now be hanged on April 1. Mirza was sentenced to death for murdering the then-managing director of the city's state-owned electricity company in 1997.

The execution was postponed for three days last Thursday after a video of Mirza emerged, claiming that Altaf Hussain
...think of the head of the Barzini clan, only in Urdu...
-- the chief of his Muttahida Qaumi Movement
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
(MQM) -- had ordered him to carry out killings.

The MQM maintains a strong grip on power in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
under the leadership of Hussain, who has been in self-imposed exile in London since 1992.

Also on Tuesday, Pakistain hanged a murderer as the interior minister confirmed a 30-day stay of execution for another man apparently condemned to death as a teenager.

Muhammad Nasrullah, who killed a man over a family dispute in 1994, was executed at a jail in the city of Multan in Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

province, taking the number of executions to 55 since their resumption in December.

The hanging came hours before Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan
...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture...
confirmed the execution of Shafqat Hussain would be delayed by 30 days.

Hussain's case has attracted international attention as his lawyers and family claim he was only 15 at the time of the killing.

Khan said a committee would be set up to try to determine Hussain's true age.

"We have not received any proof from anybody about his age, all the fuss is being made in the media," Khan told news hounds.
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