Aftab Bahadur Masih’s last letter: How is hanging people not charged with terrorism going to stop ASWJ-TTP’s terrorism in Pakistan?: While the death penalty moratorium was ended on the pretext of punishing Deobandi terrorists, most of the people being hanged are charged with regular crimes – Aftab Bahadur Masih’s last letter. “I just received my black warrant. It says

Those opposing Shafqat’s death penalty should also state Umair Shah’s story!: 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

Congratulations: Death Penalty is Gone Forever – by Dr Shahid Bajwa:   After ten years without hangings, death penalty will be no longer be acceptable to the people of Pakistan. Nawaz government has extended the ban on death penalty for an indefinite period (Dawn, 4 Oct 2013). If there are

PML-N playing politics on the abolition of death penalty – by Dr. Zulfiqar Ali: One of the first acts of ZAB, after Dec 20th 1971, was de facto abolition of death penalty. At the time Pakistan was one of the few such countries.On the black night of July 5th, he asked his servant

Supporting Moratorium on Capital Punishment – by Amjad Hussain: Reprieve for the Condemned and Islamic Law October 10th was marked as anti-death penalty day worldwide. Its sham that government’s July 2nd decision to commute the death sentence of 7400 death row prisoners that was applauded across the globe