PHC suspends death penalty awarded by military court

[Irfan Baloch]

the kid should not be hanged under any circumstances, you cant catch someone at 14 yrs old then hang him 6 or 7 years later, it will be a great sin. He must be rehabilitated. Someone at 14 is not responsible 100% for their actions yet.

respect your POV.. when you have time.. look up these kids belonging to TTP and ISIS carrying out executions see the smirks on their faces as they shoot the prisoners on the back of their heads or behead them.. yes look up the child executioners .
in a similar case another under-age terrorist was caught repeatedly after re-offending involved in the murder of 7 policemen and placing IED and in all times the judge agreeing with your sentiment freed him with full honour. he has not been arrested yet after he was freed for the 4th time 2 years ago.

 

[Dubious]

PHC suspends death penalty awarded by military court
ALI AKBAR — PUBLISHED 7 MINUTES AGO

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday suspended the execution of a death-row prisoner, who was sentenced to death by a military court after he was found to be involved in terrorism.

Haider Ali, now 21 years old, was arrested by security forces in 2009, when he was 14 years old and a 10th grade student at the Malakand Public High School, Swat.

Ali's hanging was suspended after his parents filed a petition in PHC, challenging his death sentence.

Read: PHC moved against conviction of ‘10th grader’ by military court

His parents maintained in the petition that their son was arrested by security forces in 2009 on charges of terrorism, but they did not have any information about him after the arrest.

It was only recently, six years after Ali's arrest, that they found out their son was imprisoned in a jail in Timergara, in Lower Dir district, and was sentenced to death by a military court, the parents said in the application.

Therefore, the implementation of the military court's verdict should be immediately stopped, the petition said.

Announcing the court's decision on the petition, a two-judge bench of the PHC comprising Justice Musarrat Hilali and Justice Younis Theem ordered to halt implementation of the military court's verdict of Ali's death sentence until September 8.

The court subsequently adjourned the hearing while issuing notices to the federal government, defence secretary, home secretary, General Officer Commanding Malakand and other concerned officers.

Earlier on Saturday, the Supreme Court office declined to entertain a petition moved by Zahir Shah, the father of Haider Ali, in which he sought orders for the authorities to provide the record of the trial court proceedings so that a proper appeal challenging the judgment of the military court could be filed either before the Supreme Court or the high court.

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Advocate Zulfikar Ahmed Bhutta filed the petition before the Supreme Court on behalf of Mr Shah.

On Saturday, the Supreme Court registrar returned the plea to the petitioner on the grounds that he had not approached the high court concerned or any other appropriate forum available to him under the law for the same relief.

The Parliament passed the 21st Amendment and the Pakistan Army Act, 1952, to establish the special courts after the massacre in the Army Public School, Peshawar, last year.

On April 16 the apex court had suspended executions of six militants who were awarded death sentence by these military courts.

Also read: SC stays military courts executions

Earlier in August, the Supreme Court in a majority ruling upheld the establishment of military courts in Pakistan.

Know more: Military courts get Supreme Court nod

While dismissing petitions challenging the 21st amendments, a 17-judge full court of the Supreme Court, in a majority judgment, had reaffirmed that any order passed, decision taken or sentence awarded by the military courts will be subject to judicial review by the high courts and the Supreme Court on the grounds of being coram-non-judice, without jurisdiction or suffering from mala fides including malice in law.

Is this the same guy who was all over the international media pressurizing Pakistan coz the guy was 14 when caught? Also the same case that the World bank thopped on us to review?

From which âge we consider a person responsible of his own acts ?

If you look at shariah it is baligh

If you follow the international media he was still a child doing stupid things and deserves a pardon! Like when Western children do something stupid and get juvenile detention!

 

[graphican]

Every terrorist has families who weep and cry for their loved one being hanged.. but people who these terrorists kill also have families who want their murderer to be hanged as soon as possible.

 

[angelandsoul]

respect your POV.. when you have time.. look up these kids belonging to TTP and ISIS carrying out executions see the smirks on their faces as they shoot the prisoners on the back of their heads or behead them.. yes look up the child executioners .
in a similar case another under-age terrorist was caught repeatedly after re-offending involved in the murder of 7 policemen and placing IED and in all times the judge agreeing with your sentiment freed him with full honour. he has not been arrested yet after he was freed for the 4th time 2 years ago.

No one says free him, he was 14 yrs old when arrested and cant be executed, otherwise are we better than ttp dogs, keep him in prison for aslong as it takes to re program him and rehabilitate him. Even if its 10 more years. Educate the stupid kid and completely change his ttp thinking.

If i trained a 8 yr old kid to laugh as he pulled trigger on gun to kill someone as i managed to convince him this was right thing, you would keep him in jail till he was 18 and then kill him ??

14 year olds being involved in terrorist activiteis is a failure of society and government policy. Even God will not judge him as a full adult then why should we ?