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| Govt may punish those responsible for putting off Shafqat's execution |
| 2015-06-14 |
| [DAWN] The government is likely to take action against those responsible for granting last-minute reprieve to death row prisoner Shafqat Hussain who was scheduled to be executed on Tuesday morning, according to sources in the Presidency. The sources said the execution was apparently put off on the orders of the Sindh jail authorities. Following an initial inquiry, they said, President Mamnoon Hussain had been informed about how the execution had been postponed and on whose instructions. "The president has been told that an NGO, the Justice Project Pakistain (JPP), wrote a letter to the Sindh jail authorities requesting them to postpone the convict's hanging because his (fresh) plea had been accepted by the Supreme Court for a formal hearing," the sources said. "In exercise of clause 104 of the jail manual, the jailer then stopped the execution," they said. The halting of Shafqat Hussain's execution, hours before he was supposed to be hanged in the 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... Central Jail, had stunned all concerned, including the convict's own counsel. The president's spokesperson had said at the time that neither any summary had been sent from the Prime Minister's Office for grant of mercy to the convict nor had President Hussain approved it. |
| Posted by:Fred |