Seven Convicts Hanged In Four Jails

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6MfhIaasP9LklC9gVjgiWb5eNM8Ap9lfNMSfZkkyfRrIer8K0JcB47ctI40Bqg7ExRskTryeSd3OKht08HSyV4BWe7YlXPyzqMnzpHWFfet9wyny-KoFxTsdFz6eZhM8dv3CgEci3UKKw/s1600/5.png" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6MfhIaasP9LklC9gVjgiWb5eNM8Ap9lfNMSfZkkyfRrIer8K0JcB47ctI40Bqg7ExRskTryeSd3OKht08HSyV4BWe7YlXPyzqMnzpHWFfet9wyny-KoFxTsdFz6eZhM8dv3CgEci3UKKw/" /></a></div> <b>KARACHI/SUKKUR/FAISALABAD/RAWALPINDI: Seven censured detainees have been executed in Karachi, Sukkur, Faisalabad and Rawalpindi on Tuesday morning. </b><br /> <br /> Behram Khan was sentenced to death by a hostile to terrorism court in June 2003, which discovered him liable of murdering Advocate Mohammad Ashraf in a court of the Sindh High Court in April 2003.<br /> <br /> Khan was hanged at the Karachi Central Prison. As indicated by the indictment, Behram and sub-investigator Pir Bux had landed at the court to slaughter Advocate Qurban Ali Chauhan, who was the lawyer for a blamed being striven for the murdering for Behram's maternal uncle.<br /> <br /> <center> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x2elgwm?187202&logo=0&info=0&highlight=000000&background=2fb5f9" width="480"></iframe></center> <br /> The benevolence appeal of the convict was additionally turned around the President of Pakistan.<br /> <br /> Three convicts Shahid Haneef, Muhammad Talha and Khaleel Ahmed have been hanged at Central Jail Sukkur. All the three were discovered liable by a hostile to terrorism court in Karachi, of murdering Mr. Syed Zaffar Ali Shah, who was a chief in Defense service, when he was slaughtered in July 2001.<br /> <br /> An alternate detainee, indicted of slaughtering two policemen close to the US Consulate General in Karachi, Zulfikar Ali was hanged at Adiala imprison in Rawalpindi.<br /> <br /> Ali, an inhabitant of Naval Colony, Hub Road Karachi. was connected with al Qaeda. He was sentenced by a hostile to terrorism court in Karachi in the wake of being busy in February 2003. Five parts of Zulfiqar's family held their keep going gathering on Monday.<br /> <br /> Mushtaq Ahmed and Nawazish Ali were executed at Central Jail Faisalabad. Both were indicted for inclusion in a 2003 endeavor to murdered Gen (Retd) Pervez Musharraf. Nawazish was a lesser professional at Pakistan Air Force, when he was captured, while Mushtaq Ahmed was a regular citizen.<br /> <br /> An alternate convict for the situation, previous Pakistan Air Force (PAF) boss specialist Khalid Mehmood, was executed in the Adiala Jail on Jan 9.<br /> <br /> Additional standard efforts to establish safety were taken around the penitentiaries, where passing line detainees were executed. Overwhelming unexpected of police, Rangers and armed force staff were sent in and outside the prisons' premises. Cellphone Signal jammers were likewise put at touchy spots around the correctional facilities.<br /> <br /> A ban on executions had been forced in the nation since 2008. The PML-N government lifted it on Dec 17, 2014 in the wake of the Peshawar school disaster.

Seven Convicts Hanged In Four Jails

KARACHI/SUKKUR/FAISALABAD/RAWALPINDI: Seven censured detainees have been executed in Karachi, Sukkur, Faisalabad and Rawalpindi on Tuesday...

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Footprints: Live And A Death On Hold

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWO4hEGz5hfXX2NwqHI0Hzq4jS7N5sSoXd9OyeP8eTllHtxqCHhJlMa4yXJq-iFxJZ9GME4Yp_PNKnXrzoCpPV2O9K51MWyxLvvXvkecd0o1HS2lNIXwvMSfw6x8j9a58fSlpEQGv3MZpE/s1600/4.png" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWO4hEGz5hfXX2NwqHI0Hzq4jS7N5sSoXd9OyeP8eTllHtxqCHhJlMa4yXJq-iFxJZ9GME4Yp_PNKnXrzoCpPV2O9K51MWyxLvvXvkecd0o1HS2lNIXwvMSfw6x8j9a58fSlpEQGv3MZpE/" /></a></div> <b>Strolling through tight pathways crisscrossing steeply up from the fundamental street, I climb up the slope on the edge of Muzaffarabad having no idea what anticipates me at the spot where the group of Shafqat Hussain, whose execution has been ended by the administration, has been dwelling for quite a while. </b><br /> <br /> It is a shabby two-room spot, ignoring Chehla Bandi neighborhood which is along the Neelum Valley street. As I and a far off cousin of Shafqat achieve near to the tin-roofed structure, we see an elderly lady remaining in the patio looking forlorn and dispossessed. From behind shows up a young lady in her mid-twenties yet looks much more seasoned. Inside in a room is lying an outwardly tested and hearing-disabled old man. From a nearby room a young person, putting on a denim coat, surges out to get us.<br /> <br /> They are Shafqat's relatives: his guardians and two of his six kin. They have been inhabiting this spot for a month to month rent of Rs2,500 for as long as three weeks, taking after the savage assault on the Army Public School in Peshawar when they were informed that Shafqat could be hanged whenever as Pakistan had lifted a six-year ban on executions.<br /> <br /> The family fits in with Kalalot, a little village of less than 300 houses close to the town of Kel, in the upper cinch of the Neelum Valley, almost 190 kilometers north-east of Muzaffarabad. Cultivating and steers raising used to be their method for work, in a standout amongst the most underprivileged regions of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, yet now they have no intends to procure their living.<br /> <br /> The greater part of their property and dairy cattle have been sold to meet set out costs to and from Karachi over the previous decade, after Shafqat was captured in 2004 for capturing and murdering a seven-year-old kid from a condo assembling in Karachi where he was functioning as a gatekeeper. In September that year, Shafqat, said to be 14 years of age at the time, was sentenced to death by an antiterrorism court. His homicide allegation was diminished to 'automatic murder' on advance, yet the terrorism charges against him were not suppressed.<br /> <br /> "We came to think about his capture and conviction much later, in light of the fact that in those days there were poor method for correspondence in our general vicinity," reviews Manzoor, Shafqat's senior sibling.<br /> <br /> At first, the family acquired some cash from a relative and sent Gulzaman, the eldest kin to Karachi. He met Shafqat in jail and returned home following one month, with news about his conviction. "At the point when Gulzaman asked Shafqat what he had done, he begun shouting. Such was the effect of police torment on him," Manzoor includes.<br /> <br /> As indicated by Justice Project Pakistan, a law office having some expertise in human rights cases and speaking to Shafqat in courts, Shafqat admitted strictly when being tormented by police amid nine days of investigation. In an announcement, the UK-based human rights association Reprieve additionally said that Pakistani police had tormented the adolescent into admitting to the wrongdoing.<br /> <br /> "In Pakistan, police torment can drive you into admitting any homicide, even that of the first PM of Pakistan, regardless of the possibility that you're not conceived at the time," says Raza Ali Khan, a senior promoter in Muzaffarabad.<br /> <br /> With his guardians and sister situated close by him, Manzoor reviews how the punishment has crushed their lives. "My dad is incapacitated. He can't hear and see appropriately. Following the time when my mom learnt that Shafqat was sentenced to death, she has been exasperates rationally, enduring from amnesia."<br /> <br /> Shafqat's mom is holding the main picture of her detained child and tears begin moving down her cheeks when I approach her. As I attempt to take a picture, Manzoor asks her not to cry. She over and over wipes her face. The scenes are sad.<br /> <br /> An antiterrorism court in Sindh issued Shafqat's passing warrant on Jan 3 and he was to be executed on Jan 14. His family was supporting for the most noticeably bad, yet then came the uplifting news: the inside service stopped his execution 'for now'. On Jan 5, elected Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan reported the administration was stopping his approaching execution. After two days, the clergyman said a choice in regards to Shafqat's age must be made for which a DNA test would be directed.<br /> <br /> By and by, the family's experience is not over. "Unless an acceptable and definite choice comes, we will stay on tenterhooks," Manzoor muses. "Yet we are fulfilled that he is not an executioner or a terrorist."<br /> <br /> He calls attention to that Shafqat has effectively used over 10 years in jail, which is identical to a lifelong incarceration, and contends that this ought to suffice for his discharge.<br /> <br /> While sitting there, I likewise talk via telephone to Gulzaman, who has been in Karachi since 2004 to stay near to his sibling, doing odd occupations to meet costs. "I met Shafqat six days prior. He is confident that Allah will end his bind," he says.<br /> <br /> "We don't need anything. When he is brought together with us, we will come back to our town. We won't stay in the urban communities for a solitary day," says Manzoor.

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Prevail Upon India To Work With Pakistan, Sartaj Tells Kerry

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2j_zYAxqxR3Rb3LJzo_Ck-ZrG9ytTsR10FXBF6unSYrxT6Sw33mjoJ_Te5D0Htllpa4qQT45ZXEe8CpLnBadbhOvEcJNdU7mlMZwThXlb-8LsgEfMUNIOYksgNku7UHDRDaoNMM4L9Dvp/s1600/3.png" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2j_zYAxqxR3Rb3LJzo_Ck-ZrG9ytTsR10FXBF6unSYrxT6Sw33mjoJ_Te5D0Htllpa4qQT45ZXEe8CpLnBadbhOvEcJNdU7mlMZwThXlb-8LsgEfMUNIOYksgNku7UHDRDaoNMM4L9Dvp/" /></a></div> <b>ISLAMABAD: Sartaj Aziz on Tuesday said that the United States being a powerful part of the global group could sway India to work with Pakistan towards local peace and monetary thriving.</b><br /> <br /> Aziz, counselor to Nawaz Sharif on outside undertakings, was tending to a public interview with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Islamabad.<br /> <br /> "The abrogation of outside secretary level talks by India, emulated by the late occurrences of unjustifiable and random terminating at stake of Control (Loc) and Working Boundary are a wellspring of genuine concern to Pakistan," Aziz said.<br /> <br /> "We trust, in this way, that US as a persuasive part of the global group can influence India to work with Pakistan towards provincial peace and financial thriving."<br /> <br /> Secretary Kerry said that Prime Minister Sharif merited a ton of credit for his initiative in contacting his neighbors to create peace and comprehension. "I can't underline enough that it is significantly in light of a legitimate concern for Pakistan and India to advance their relationship," he included.<br /> <br /> "This is the hardest time to work; it implies you need to put a ton of time and exertion into overcoming verifiable question, past occasions and hostilities that originate from that history.<br /> <br /> "We need to make an agreement for reasonable peace through dialog. We hail the endeavors to do thus, we energize both Pakistan and India to reengage and the United States will do whatever it can to attempt to help in that exertion," Secretary Kerry said.<br /> <br /> <h3> <b>Combating Terrorism</b></h3> <br /> Aziz and Kerry concurred that peace and soundness in Afghanistan was a fundamental essential for dependability in Pakistan and in the locale.<br /> <br /> "Secretary Kerry invited in his comments the steadfast steps started by Pakistan to counter the threat of terrorism through the National Action Plan and related measures," Aziz said.<br /> <br /> Kerry said that the truth has never been clearer than on Dec 16. "The fierce homicide of your kids was felt by every guardian and native in the United States. Nobody required an indication of Taliban's negligence for human life and for opportunity," he said.<br /> <br /> "Pretty much as we remained with the populace of France in its troublesome hour, America will keep on remaining with the populace of Pakistan as they construct a future that is free from the risk of vicious radicalism.<br /> <br /> "I respect the solid accord fashioned by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Pakistan's pioneers about the criticalness of battling all terrorists and fear bunches," Kerry said.<br /> <br /> Besides, Aziz said that both the nations have additionally consented to extend exchange.<br /> <br /> "I urge Secretary Kerry to consider different recommendations to give more prominent business access to Pakistan," he said, including that "Pakistan is energetically anticipating joint US-Pak business opportunity meeting that is planned to be held in March 2015".<br /> <br /> <b>AP includes:</b> US Secretary of State John Kerry has likewise lauded the Pakistan armed force operations in North Waziristan, saying the results are "critical".<br /> <br /> Pakistan dispatched a significant military operation in the North Waziristan locale in June to clear the zone of activists.<br /> <br /> Kerry adulated the reviving of the school in Peshawar where Taliban shooters on Dec 16 butchered understudies and instructors in one of the nation's most exceedingly awful terrorist assaults.<br /> <br /> The school revived on Monday. Kerry called it a "confirmation" to the intention of the Pakistani individuals.<br /> <br /> <center> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x2elhm3?logo=0&info=0&highlight=000000&background=2fb5f9" width="480"></iframe></center>

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UN Chief Accuses India Of Intolerance With Gay Sex Ban

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZfgDmMxk7yGz4JmRUGG6sSeU72ghJmrP-gwHkOZRmlVOW2Lapn7UfcfApXxyM1GqgT6enr7dGWwVK5-VS4vNqbehglofu27B3LRcSfQhTHSOafXeYKtc_1UfLZE7qzjGkZlXZzdWEOK0j/s1600/2.png" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZfgDmMxk7yGz4JmRUGG6sSeU72ghJmrP-gwHkOZRmlVOW2Lapn7UfcfApXxyM1GqgT6enr7dGWwVK5-VS4vNqbehglofu27B3LRcSfQhTHSOafXeYKtc_1UfLZE7qzjGkZlXZzdWEOK0j/" /></a></div> <b>NEW DELHI: United Nations boss Ban Ki-moon has blamed India for inciting prejudice with its boycott on gay sex in the midst of hullabaloo over a decision gathering priest's arrangements to make gay people "ordinary". </b><br /> <br /> Talking on a visit to the capital New Delhi, Ban said he "staunchly contradicted the criminalisation of homosexuality" alluding to India's frontier time law that restricts gay sex.<br /> <br /> "I am glad to remained for the correspondence of all individuals — including the individuals who are lesbian, gay, swinger and transgender," the UN secretary general said in an announcement late Monday.<br /> <br /> "I stand up in light of the fact that laws criminalizing consensual, grown-up same-sex connections abuse fundamental rights to security and to opportunity from segregation. Regardless of the fact that they are not implemented, these laws breed bigotry."<br /> <br /> India's Supreme Court reimposed a boycott on gay sex in late 2013, governing that the obligation regarding changing the 1861 law rested with legislators and not judges.<br /> <br /> Gay sex had been adequately authorized in 2009 when the Delhi High Court decided that banning "bodily intercourse against the request of nature" was an infringement of essential rights.<br /> <br /> Boycott's remarks went ahead that day that a state pastor from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision gathering published his arrangements to make gays "ordinary "in the waterfront resort condition of Goa.<br /> <br /> Ramesh Tawadkar, games and youth undertakings serve in Goa's state government, told columnists that he wanted to open up fixates on the lines of Alcoholics Anonymous to treat them.<br /> <br /> "We will make them typical. We will have habitats for them, in the same way as Alcoholic Anonymous focuses," Tawadkar said, including that the state would "prepare them and provide for them medications as well".<br /> <br /> Tawadkar, a part of Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), made the remarks in the wake of discharging the state's approach on youth issues which recorded lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders as a vilified gathering that required consideration.<br /> <br /> His remarks drew broad feedback and derision from gay rights gatherings and online networking with sneering comments posted on Twitter.<br /> <br /> "There must be somebody from the higher powers... from the BJP who will need to talk up on this on the grounds that when you are quiet about somebody putting forth such a reckless expression you are really letting it out," Harish Iyer, a gay rights lobbyist, told NDTV news channe

UN Chief Accuses India Of Intolerance With Gay Sex Ban

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Saudi Cleric Said Building Snowmen Is "Anti-Islamic"

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ8uwx6yI4aGmWnGHc_b206FjZBnv6GDjR3UPinV5grVafEY6ygObOMDVvxekHi_0T9wKsETD-0hyphenhyphenSWwX53yBS8kETps3A2TZlwizDa_a1HoosQHQ0uIy-OY77RuAz6PIH0QWnoqs3lrfi/s1600/1.png" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ8uwx6yI4aGmWnGHc_b206FjZBnv6GDjR3UPinV5grVafEY6ygObOMDVvxekHi_0T9wKsETD-0hyphenhyphenSWwX53yBS8kETps3A2TZlwizDa_a1HoosQHQ0uIy-OY77RuAz6PIH0QWnoqs3lrfi/" /></a></div> <b>DUBAI: A noticeable Saudi Arabian minister has thrown together discussion by issuing a religious decision disallowing the building of snowmen, portraying them as against Islamic. </b><br /> <br /> Asked on a religious site on the off chance that it was reasonable for fathers to assemble snowmen for their youngsters after a snowstorm in the nation's north, Sheik Mohammed Saleh al-Munajjid answered: "It is not allowed to make a statue out of snow, even by method for play and fun."<br /> <br /> Citing from Muslim researchers, Sheik Munajjid contended that to assemble a snowman was to make a picture of an individual, an activity considered corrupt under the kingdom's strict understanding of Sunni Islam.<br /> <br /> "God has given individuals space to make whatever they need which does not have a spirit, including trees, boats, tree grown foods, structures et cetera," he wrote in his decision.<br /> <br /> That incited quick reactions from Twitter clients writing in Arabic and distinguishing themselves with Arab names.<br /> <br /> One posted a photograph of a man in formal Arab attire holding the arm of a "snow lady" wearing a bra and lipstick.<br /> <br /> "The explanation behind the boycott is apprehension of subversion," he composed.<br /> <br /> An alternate said the nation was tormented by two sorts of individuals: "An individuals searching for a fatwa (religious decision) for everything in their lives, and a minister who needs to meddle in everything in the lives of others through a fatwa," the client composed.<br /> <br /> Nonetheless, Sheik Munajjid had a few supporters.<br /> <br /> One composed that building snowmn advanced "vigor and suggestion."<br /> <br /> "Might God save the researchers, for they appreciate sharp vision and perceive matters that even Satan does not consider," the supporter composed.<br /> <br /> Snow has secured upland territories of Tabuk area close Saudi Arabia's fringe with Jordan for the third back to back year as icy climate cleared over the Middle East.

Saudi Cleric Said Building Snowmen Is "Anti-Islamic"

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