Pakistan world’s third most prolific executioner

[waz]

Only 419? Let us know when its 4,419. Plenty of murdering, raping and terrorist scum needing to be wiped.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

Although if somebody hurt my family I would kill them but leaving asides my primeval instinct for revenge civilized societies should NOT have death sentance. The state represents the sum of our higher values and it should reflect highest virtues of civilized behaviour.

*I think the reason Pak has such high numbers being executed is because there was a moratorium for some years amd this is the 'glut' that is being 'processed'.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

NAP has been a blow to terroriststs. Let the amnesty intl and other die hard liberal groups (who sympathize with terrorists) complain. Maintain course!

 

[M. Sarmad]

Proof again, that even when a topic on PDF has absolutely, positively, zero to do with the United States, (Completely internal Pakistani story by Pakistani journalists.), it will STILL wind up being about, "it's all America's fault!"




Your post, literally, made me laugh out loud. Thank you!

Absolutely nothing to do with the US ? I don't think so ...

Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), established a few years ago by a foreign-returned barrister, is a legal action charity that has a stated purpose of representing those who have been scooped up in the U.S."war on terror" and are held beyond the rule of law.

In this report, JPP is basically arguing that the idea that the death penalty would act as a deterrent in the matter (of Terrorism) was dubious at best and the government was taking lives in the name of victims of terror and WoT. The whole idea is to mislead the world into believing that the Pak Government lifting the moratorium on the death penalty has nothing to do with the US led war on terror

 

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LAHORE: It has been two years since the government lifted the moratorium on the death penalty following the militant attack on the students and staff of the Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar.

Since then, 419 prisoners on death row have been executed, making Pakistan the third most prolific executioner in the world two years in a row.

When Pakistan announced that it was lifting its six-year-old moratorium on capital punishment as part of its National Action Plan, the government had added that only those convicted of terrorism would be executed. But within three months, in March 2015, the moratorium was lifted across the board.

Though the move was celebrated initially as an “effective means” to curb terrorism, later the government did not publicly present a justification for lifting the moratorium across the board, Rimmel Mohydin, the media and communications officer at the Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), said.

The new policy came into effect without generating much public debate.

According to data collected by the JPP, only 16 per cent of the executions carried out since December 2014 were related to terrorism charges while a significant number of those executed included juveniles, and mentally and physically disabled inmates.

A press release issued by the JPP on Saturday said that in as many as 88 per cent of ‘terrorism’ cases, there was no link to a terrorist organisation or anything that could be reasonably defined as terrorism.

The press release said the NAP had correctly observed that there was a need to “revamp and reform Pakistan’s criminal justice system”. However no significant efforts had been made to do this so far.

This was compounded by the lack of a meaningful appellate process for capital cases, a blatant violation of Pakistan’s international human rights obligations.

Until March this year, the president had 444 pending mercy petitions while the known number of presidential pardons granted was zero.

One of the reasons for this was that it was mandatory for prisons to forward the three-line ‘mercy petition’ to the president, Ms Mohydin said, adding that because the plea did not contain details of the case, it was a mere formality.

More often than not, state-appointed lawyers made no efforts in the cases assigned to them.

“The justice system is rigged against those who need it the most,” she said.

Discussions JPP’s researchers have had on the subject with people from various socioeconomic backgrounds reveal an awareness of the pitfalls of a flawed justice system.

Ms Mohydin argued that it would be unfair to assume that the masses ever welcomed reinstatement of the death penalty across the board.

The press release further said it was a dishonour to the memory of the APS attack victims for the state to take lives in their name, when they had no bearing on curbing the menace that caused their deaths. In fact, the country experienced some of the worst terrorist attacks this year, she said.

The idea that the death penalty would act as a deterrent in the matter was dubious at best and not supported by scientific research or data.

The issue of wrongful executions came to light this year with several cases including the case of two brothers in Bahawalpur who had spent 11 years on death row and hanged only to be acquitted by the Supreme Court this year.

Another prisoner was found innocent a year after he had been found dead in his cell. Aftab Bahadur, who was executed last year, was a juvenile when convicted, as were Moinuddin and Azam who are still on death row.

The 100th prisoner hanged since 2014 was Muneer Hussain, a mentally ill person. There are likely many more cases like this and a condemned prisoner could spend an average of 11.41 years on death row, according to the press release.

Under Pakistani law, 27 crimes carry the death sentence, some of which include sabotaging the railway network and drug trafficking.

The press release added that an average of 258 death sentences were imposed each year between 2007 and 2015, explaining why the country had the highest populated death row in the world.

The criminal justice system that so eagerly imposed death sentences in the country warranted close examination, the press release said.

Pakistan’s faulty legal infrastructure remains inaccessible, corrupt, mired in red tape, beholden to power and usurped by influence and wealth, creating a permissive environment for the routine miscarriage of justice.

Published in Dawn, December 18th, 2016

Once the Taliban TTP religious extremists bomb or start chopping heads of Dawn or Geo news... they will too be crying for the death penalty for this terrorist cancer.

Again... Dawn neoliberalism.... Fails. Neo-Liberalism is failing around the world... about time time brown nosers in Dawn realized this... their masters are themselves abandoning the policy of appeasement of ISIS.

 

[Desertfalcon]

The whole idea is to mislead the world into believing that the Pak Government lifting the moratorium on the death penalty has nothing to do with the US led war on terror

Give me a break!

Pakistan's lifting of the moratorium on the death penalty for terrorists had everything to do with the Peshawar Army Public School attack, that killed 132 children, and nothing to do with the USA. Give Pakistan some credit!

 

[M. Sarmad]

Give me a break!

Pakistan's lifting of the moratorium on the death penalty for terrorists had everything to do with the Peshawar Army Public School attack, that killed 132 children, and nothing to do with the USA.

And the Peshawar Army Public School attack, that killed 132 children, had everything to do with the USA and the so called War on Terror .. No ?

 

[Desertfalcon]

And the Peshawar Army Public School attack, that killed 132 children, had everything to do with the USA and the so called War on Terror .. No ?

No. It had everything to do with the Pakistan armed forces battles with the TTP in North Waziristan, as per Pakistan's own intelligence concerning that attack. What else it had to do with the wider 'War on Terror' suggest that you believe either of both, that a.) Pakistan should not respond to terrorist attacks within it's borders. b.) Pakistan is blameless in any external activities, of say, the ISI, in say, Afghanistan.

 

[M. Sarmad]

No. It had everything to do with the Pakistan armed forces battles with the TTP in North Waziristan, as per Pakistan's own intelligence concerning that attack. What else it had to do with the wider 'War on Terror' suggest that you believe either of both, that a.) Pakistan should not respond to terrorist attacks within it's borders. b.) Pakistan is blameless in any external activities, of say, the ISI, in say, Afghanistan.

And there was no TTP before the US invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001 .. !!


The roots of the TTP as an organization began in 2002 when the Pakistani military conducted incursions into the tribal areas to originally combat foreign militants fleeing from the war in Afghanistan into the neighbouring tribal areas of Pakistan.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3645114.stm





And the Operation Zarb e Azb (Pakistan's Military offensive against terrorists in North Waziristan that began in 2014) was carried out under US pressure

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-army-begins-offensive-against-militants.html




The TTP claimed responsibility for the Peshawar Army Public School attack, that killed 132 children, describing it as revenge for Operation Zarb-e-Azb



And here you are trying to tell us that the Peshawar Attack had nothing to do with the US-led War on Terror ??

 

[Deidara]

Why are human rights groups against capital punishment. One would rather die than live his life in jail.

 

[Desertfalcon]

And there was no TTP before the US invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001 .. !!


The roots of the TTP as an organization began in 2002 when the Pakistani military conducted incursions into the tribal areas to originally combat foreign militants fleeing from the war in Afghanistan into the neighbouring tribal areas of Pakistan.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3645114.stm





And the Operation Zarb e Azb (Pakistan's Military offensive against terrorists in North Waziristan that began in 2014) was carried out under US pressure

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-army-begins-offensive-against-militants.html




The TTP claimed responsibility for the Peshawar Army Public School attack, that killed 132 children, describing it as revenge for Operation Zarb-e-Azb



And here you are trying to tell us that the Peshawar Attack had nothing to do with the US-led War on Terror ??

Look, I am not going to go through the extremely long and very complicated history of Pakistan's involvement in Afghanistan, which is far older and more extensive than the American one, and just as fraught with consequences, that Pakistan now suffers from. What I will say is that even if I accepted every single thing you posted, it sounds like you should be taking all that anger you feel, all that resentment, and directing it toward your own country's government where it belongs. Pakistan is a big boy, not some helpless little child that needs to blame America for every decision it makes.

 

[M. Sarmad]

Look, I am not going to go through the extremely long and very complicated history of Pakistan's involvement in Afghanistan, which is far older and more extensive than the American one, and just as fraught with consequences, that Pakistan now suffers from. What I will say is that even if I accepted every single thing you posted, it sounds like you should be taking all that anger you feel, all that resentment, and directing it toward your own country's government where it belongs. Pakistan is a big boy, not some helpless little child that needs to blame America for every decision it makes.

The "US-led war on terror" is open-ended and manufactured on fake premises.


The expansion of US military establishment serves the interests of an "elite group" that uses the projection of power as a way to justify the continued expansion of military spending. "Ending terrorism" in Afghanistan, ME or anywhere else (and establishing peace) is NOT in the interest of the "elite group" that the "American military-industrial complex" comprises


The United States has global IMPERIAL interests .. And as Richard N. Haass puts it, The world should be given notice that Washington is prepared to “extend its control,” informally if possible and formally if not, to secure what it considers to be its legitimate interests across the face of the globe.


But because of the economic imperative, imperialism is essentially exploitative, and therefore, under all conditions, is illegitimate .. Why should we NOT blame the US for pursuing her own (illegitimate) interests ?? especially when they are pursuing their interests at the expense of our survival ?


The so called third world countries are not "free actors".. They are allowed to exist only at the bottom of the imperial food chain. And only as long as they do the bidding of the imperial elite ...

 

[VCheng]

Look, I am not going to go through the extremely long and very complicated history of Pakistan's involvement in Afghanistan, which is far older and more extensive than the American one, and just as fraught with consequences, that Pakistan now suffers from. What I will say is that even if I accepted every single thing you posted, it sounds like you should be taking all that anger you feel, all that resentment, and directing it toward your own country's government where it belongs. Pakistan is a big boy, not some helpless little child that needs to blame America for every decision it makes.

Sir, remember what I said elsewhere, which was deleted?

Why bother? Let'em wallow in self-piteous denial.

 

[Dil Pakistan]

It is; either we execute them or they execute us....have your pick....its a free world.

 

[M. Sarmad]

Sir, remember what I said elsewhere, which was deleted?

Why bother? Let'em wallow in self-piteous denial.

" Shah se zeyada Shah k wafadar"

You obviously have taken an oath of fealty