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BHAWALPUR: A death row prisoner, convicted of killing four policemen, was hanged in Bhawalpur on Tuesday morning.
Condemned prisoner, Zulfiqar, was hanged in Central Jail Bhawalpur after he was found guilty of killing four policemen in 1997.
Pakistan lifted its moratorium on the death penalty in all capital cases on March 10.
Initially executions were resumed for terrorism offences only in the wake of a Taliban massacre at an army-run school in Peshawar which had claimed the lives of more than 150 persons, mostly schoolchildren, on December 16, 2014.
The United Nations, the European Union, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have called on Pakistan to re-impose its moratorium on the death penalty.
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Aug 25, 2015 02:58pm
We should understand that justice delayed in justice denied.
More terrorists to be hanged rather than killers of one or more in personal dispute or in anger.
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Aug 25, 2015 03:15pm
Keep going, this is the ONLY solution for these criminals
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Aug 25, 2015 03:17pm
Nobody has the right to kill, not even the court. Abolish death penalty NOW !
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Aug 25, 2015 03:29pm
...still waiting to see hardliners on gallow for whom the death moratorium was lifted. isn't??
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Aug 25, 2015 04:13pm
About Time !!!!
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Aug 25, 2015 11:00pm
Is anyone keeping count? China does not publish its figures (generally it is said they execute over 2000 every year). But so far Saudi Arabia and the USA headed the list of countries that execute people. But it looks like we are going to the number one country for executions this year.
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