Proposal to end death sentence not to cover terrorists: Pak

Islamabad, Sep 17 (PTI) Pakistan Thursday said terrorists
sentenced to death will not be pardoned if capital punishment
is abolished in the country, a move which may have
implications for Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh.

A draft proposal on abolishing capital punishment had
been sent to the law division for consultations, Interior
Minister Rehman Malik said.

He made it clear that persons sentenced to death for acts
of terrorism would not benefit if capital punishment is ended.
All stakeholders will be taken into confidence on the
move, Malik told a TV news channel.
Sarabjit, whose execution was put off indefinitely last
year on the intervention of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani,
was sentenced to death for alleged involvement in bomb attacks
that killed 14 people in 1990. His family insists that he was
wrongly convicted for the bombings.
The ruling Pakistan People's Party had announced its
opposition to capital punishment soon after coming to power in
March last year.

Since then, the government has been working on a package
to abolish the death sentence. PTI RHL
ANU


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