Pakistans ICCPR review on July 24, 2017Why is Pakistan the fifth largest executioner in the world? Why are non-terrorists the ones being executed? What is the real justification for lifting the moratorium on the death penalty? The government of Pakistan owes us an explanation. Pakistan was asked the same questions by the United Nations Human Rights Committee last week in Geneva, […]
Our rampant misuse of death penalty on June 24, 2017 Pakistan lifted a seven-year moratorium on the death penalty in December 2014, in the wake of the tragic terrorist attacks on the Army Public School in Peshawar. Executions were restored under the pretence that they would only apply to individuals convicted of terrorism related offences. Of course, within a few months, Pakistan lifted the […]