ISLAMABAD: As many as 77 death row convicts were executed while 32 people were sentenced to death and courts had awarded death penalty in last couple of months while 13 were sentenced to death in previous quarter, revealed a report by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Thursday.
The report said that 144 new cases were brought to the attention of the commission between April and June. While sharing the details, the commission reveled in the report that on April 5, a man reportedly shot and killed his wife and younger brother, in Domanza Bezan Khel area, near Bannu, when he saw them together in a room. The accused fled from the scene after committing the crime. A case was registered by the uncle of the perpetrator but no arrest was made. The report read that 10 labourers were killed in Pishgan area of Gwadar on May 13, by unidentified armed motorcyclists. A terrorist group had claimed responsibility for the attack. In the same month, a group of three workers working on a highway in Balochistan were gunned down allegedly by terrorists.
The victims were going to the small town of Hoshab when the incident took place. The perpetrators managed to flee on a motorcycle while they could not be traced and arrest yet for. The abductions of four political activists, including four political activists including Raza Jarwar, Ali Ahmed Bughio, Shadi Khan Soomro and Abdul Aziz Gurghaiz different villages in Badin, Sindh in May. The families of Raza Jarwar, Ali Ahmed Bughio, Shadi Khan Soomro and Abdul Aziz Gurghaiz. They disappeared persons could not be recovered despite reports by their families. The HRCP demanded the immediate and safe recovery of the victims and a detailed probe into the actions of the perpetrators.
Published in Daily Times, July 14th , 2017.
