Pakistan’s National Assembly has passed a resolution demanding public hanging of individuals found guilty of child sexual offenders. As if enough was not enough with the Hudood and Blasphemy laws brutalizing social attitudes and sensibilities the PTI Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan presented the resolution in the parliament, demanding that child […]
7Shares Taha Siddiqui writes about Pakistan’s use of death penalty and routine miscarriages of justice resulting in wrongful convictions. The first time I worked on the issue of death penalty, it was when I interviewed a hangman in the city of Lahore to do a profile on him for a local newspaper in 2011. Sabir […]
ISLAMABAD: Justice Project Pakistan (JPP) on Thursday launched a book ‘The Death Penalty in Pakistan: A Critical Review’ which is the first-ever full-length publication on the use of the death penalty in the country. A culmination of 10 years of Justice Project Pakistan’s work, the book documents the many ways in which Pakistan’s application of […]