4 Aug 2015

Shafqat Hussain Hanged In Karachi Central Jail

KARACHI: Shafqat Hussain, who was honored a capital punishment for capturing and later killing a seven-year-old kid, was hanged till death in Focal Prison Karachi at 4:00 AM on Tuesday. 
IG Penitentiaries affirmed that Shafqat Hussain's execution has been performed. 
Prior, a group of specialists inspected Shafqat Hussain's wellbeing and proclaimed him to be well. 


Later, Shafqat Hussain's family was permitted to meet him for the last time. 

An Against Terrorism Court (ATC) had issued Shafqat Hussain's demise warrant for the fifth time. Prior, his sentence was deferred on four events. 

Shafqat was sentenced in 2004 for the hijacking and automatic homicide of a seven-year-old kid who lived in a Karachi flat building where he filled in as a security monitor. 

Disarray over Shafqat's date of conception brought up issues of whether he was an adolescent or of legal age in 2004 when he was passed on capital punishment. 

The FIA examination affirmed that even in prison records, Shafqat Hussain's age was not 14 years at the time he was captured, nor was he less than 18 years old. 

Be that as it may, usage on Shafqat's capital punishment was stayed until a choice over his supplication for a legal commission to find out his age. 

A month ago the Islamabad High Court released Shafqat's request for a legal investigation into his age, and lifted the stay request, clearing route for the execution of the demise column convict. 

Pakistan lifted a ban on the death penalty in December after a dangerous assault by Taliban aggressors on Peshawar's Armed force Government funded School which slaughtered more than 150 individuals, 134 of them youngsters. 

The ban, in power subsequent to 2008, was at first lifted just in terrorism cases, however in Spring the administration stretched out it to every single capital wrongdoing.