In Pakistan, human rights appear to be a luxury reserved for convicted criminals, murderers and terrorists only while no such activism is usually seen for ordinary citizens and the genocide facing communities. Take, for example, the level of the VIP security and protocol provided to the banned terrorist outfit ASWJ’s Aurangzeb Farooqi Deobandi by the PPP government in Sindh and similar arrangements for ASWJ’s Ahmed Ludhyanvi and Ramzan Mengal by the PMLN government in Punjab and FC/army in Balochistan respectively. Another simialr example is Asma Jahnagir’s opposition to death penalties to the convicted TTP-ASWJ terrorists while she remains completely silent on the common Deobandi identity of the TTP, ASWJ, LeJ, Jundallah etc terrorists responsible for systematic attacks on Sunni Sufis, Barelvis, Shias, Christians and Ahmadis.

These days, a number of “liberals” and Deobandi clerics are opposing the death penalty to terrorists and murderers as a pretext to save Deobandi takfiris and other terrorists and criminals from justice.

In particular, many (not all) of those opposing death penalty to Shafqat Hussain, a convicted murderer, have one of the two characteristics: (1) they also oppose death penalty to convicted terrorists of the Taliban and Sipah-e-Sahaba (ASWJ-LeJ); (2) they remain consistently silent on Deobandi terrorism against Shias, Sunni Sufis, Ahmadis, Christians, Hindus etc.

Those activists who are currently distributing childhood pictures of a convicted murderer (Shafqat) who killed an innocent 7-year kid (Umair Shah) in cold blood are very careful not to provide the current picture of the Deobandi beareded beast they are tyring to save. Nor are they providing the actual 2004 picture of the killer at the time of his arrest.

In fact, according to BBC Urdu, the only document that proves Shafqat Hussain’s juvenile status at the time of murder is a dubious certificate that was issued only on 22 Dec 2014. They are also careful not to distribute a single picture of Umair Shah, the innocent child, who was killed by Shafqat Deobandi.

To emotionally exploit the death penalty debate, Deobandi clerics and their (pseudo) liberal comrades are telling us the story of an ‘innocent’ boy named Shafqat Hussain who was wrongly sentenced to death when he was only 15 years old. But what’s the story of his victim, Umair Shah, nobody is telling us. There are no pictures of or nrraatives about Umair Shah and his parents!

According to Pakistani journalist Moeed Pirzada: Shafqsat was tried first in Anti-Terror Court, ATC-III of Karachi, for abducting and killing a 7 year old boy, Umair, whom he lured into his room on the pretext of showing him a rabbit. May be this was actually a pedophile case turned ugly because he confessed killing the child Umair on 10th April but started to demand ransom of Rs. 5 lakhs from parents on 12th April. Parents were the complainants and he was arrested on their suspicions. ATC-III awarded him death under Sec. 302 of CrPC and Anti-Terror Legislation. Later Sindh High Court commuted Death Sentence under 302 to five year imprisonment but upheld the death under Anti-terror laws. He exhausted his appeals to Supreme Court and a Review. After exhausting all due process of law he was sentenced to death.

Deobandi apologists are using Shafqat’s story as a pretext to oppose impede and oppose the implementation of death penatlies to the arrested and convicted takfiri Deobandi terrorists of TTP and ASWJ. BBC Urdu and serveral other web sites have published one-sides articles and statements which are biased and uncritical. Here’s the other side of the story.

Shafqat Hussain, then 14 or 15, was working as a watchman in Karachi when he kidnapped a seven-year-old Umair Shah from the neighbourhood in April 2004. A few days later, Umair’s family received calls from Shfaqat’s mobile phone demanding a ransom of Rs 500, 000 (US$7,800) for the boy’s release. Police wa able to locate and arrest Shafqat, who admitted to kidnapping and killing Umair, whose body was recovered from a nearby drain.

Daily Dawn reports that Shafqat was the watchman at a residential complex in Karachi and was found guilty of killing a seven-year-old boy in 2004. Shafqat, the watchman at Nadeem Arcade, had kidnapped Umair and took him to his room where he hit him in his head with a club when he insisted to leave the room. This resulted in instant death of the young boy. The watchman dumped the body the following night in a nearby drain and called victim’s family from different public call offices asking them to deliver ransom though he himself never turned up. Finally, he asked the victim’s father to place the money under a wooden box lying inside the compound of Nadeem Arcade, which led to his arrest as the police investigators found that the box belonged to him.

Appnendix:

Deception by Express Tribune and NGO mafia. They photoshopped Fatima Bhutto’s picture:

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