Capital punishment in Pakistan’s legal system: Where is the justice?
During 2007-2012, Pakistan executed 171 death penalties and sentenced 1,497 prisoners to death. We compete with countries like Iraq and Iran; both countries do not principally champion human rights. We...
View ArticleOn death-row: The living dead men of Pakistan
Eight feet by six feet – that’s how big most prison cells are for anyone who is sentenced to death in Pakistan. An inmate on death-row is kept in this cell until his execution takes place which,...
View ArticleHe killed her son, she spared his life
It was recently reported in The Guardian that during a public execution in Iran, 20-year-old Balal, who was convicted of killing his 18-year-old friend Abdollah Hosseinzadeh, had the noose around his...
View ArticleFirst execution in 6 years: Government plays with Shoaib’s life
Pakistan ranks sixth in the total number of people it executes after China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and the United States. According to Amnesty International estimates, there are more than 8,500...
View ArticleWhen will the barbarity of beheading end in Saudi Arabia?
Savagery and barbarity still exists in the present era of enlightenment; where the days of ignorance of Arabia and the dark ages of Europe and the Roman era still lurk in the shadows of today. It is...
View ArticleThe death penalty is justified today
Two recent terrorist attacks have proven to be a watershed in our history. First, the unfortunate siege at the Karachi airport which resulted in the loss of many innocent lives and thereby, creating a...
View ArticlePakistan’s moral catastrophe – Don’t execute Shafqat Hussain
Shafqat Hussain, the youngest of seven children, came to Karachi from Kashmir in search of work in 2003. Having struggled with a learning disability, Shafqat failed in school. He was 13 years old when...
View ArticleMaking a mockery of legal procedure in the Saulat Mirza trial
Recently, the focus of all media mediums was the statement of a convicted prisoner and target killer, Saulat Mirza, who was arrested for murder charges and was scheduled to be executed on death row on...
View ArticleWill Pakistan be able to #SaveNabeel?
In September, Nabeel Masih, a sixteen-year-old Christian boy was charged under Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws. His crime was ‘liking’ a post that allegedly ‘defamed and disrespected’ the Kaaba....
View ArticleI made 44 friends in Kenya’s prisons and they taught me more than I taught them
When I arrived in Nairobi on New Year’s Eve in 2015, I didn’t know what to expect. A city I had never visited before or had any familiarity to was going to be my home for a year. Its people,...
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