Pakistan Executed 151 People in Five Months
KABUL: (Middle East Press) Pakistan has executed 151 suspects in five months when the government lifted its moratorium on death penalty, KhaamaPress reported.
The information collected by Pakistan’s The Express Tribune shows that only 23 these people were only convicted of terrorism charges but the remaining were hanged for rape, murders, robbery and kidnapping for money.
But Rabiya Bajwa, a former member of Lahore High Court Bar Association said that people were executed over personal disputes and that no real terrorist was being executed.
She called on government to arrest the real terrorists: “What the government should do is, arrest real terrorists, establish cases against them and give them exemplary punishment. Because of the failure of the government, terrorists always go scot-free.” She said.
Pakistan lifted the moratorium on death penalty in December 2014 in the aftermath of a deadly attack at a military-run school in Peshawar.
At least 140 people were killed and more than 130 others wounded, most of them school children, in the attack which was claimed by Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Spokesman for the outlawed group of TTP said that the attack was a revenge for their people killed in Pakistani military operation.
Pakistan launched a large-scale military operation against militant groups in June 2014 after peace efforts with TTP failed.
