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Pakistan retains death penalty, to anger of human rights groups

Pakistan Press Foundation

ISLAMABAD: The new government, trying to appear determined to rein in escalating crime and militancy, has ended a ban on the death penalty, in a move condemned by international organisations as inhuman and retrograde. Up to 8,000 people languish on death row in dozens of Pakistan’s notoriously overcrowded and violent prisons. Once a moratorium is […]