Two Minor Boys on the road of Execution in PAKISTAN
Two minor boys, Muhammad
Rafique and Sohail Fida are on death row having been awarded capital
punishment by a court in the Swat district of Pakistan.
Though capital punishment is
abolished in Pakistan, under Pakistan's Juvenile Justice System Ordinance
2002, these two minor boys do not fall under the jurisdiction of the
ordinance and are therefore on the road to their execution.
The Swat district of Pakistan
in under the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA) which follows
different rules compared to the rest of Pakistan. Under the constitution of
Pakistan Article 247, in order to extend any law to a PATA region, the
government has issue a separate notification regarding the same.
The government has not felt the urgency to issue this notification thus far. The result, two young boys may have to pay for this negligence with their lives.
[DAWN]
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