Suspension on Death penalty in Pakistan

The idea of abolition death sentence is advocated by Amnesty International. In Pakistan suspension on execution of death penalty was imposed by President Asif Ali Zardari in June 2008 for an initial period of 5 years. After the exhaustion of the period in 2012, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif under the pressure of European Union (EU) and other International Human right activists directed the interior ministry to halt executions till further orders.

The supporters of suspension beliefs that Pakistan judicial and police inquiry system is too incompetent that does not guarantee a fair trial hence a sacred human life can be sacrificed where there exists doubts.

The opponents argue that if death sentence is not available how courts and society can convict offenders of heinous crimes like terrorism, treason, rape and jail break? How confidence of aggrieved party can be restored in judicial system so that they may not take law in their hand?

Pakistan is combating with many social ills and it needs this grievous punishment to convict those who carryout terrorism and blood feuds in our society. A person who attacks on our sensitive installments and security personal actually wage war against this country and should be rightly treated with death sentence. Otherwise with any other lame treatment we are compromising the survival of this country.

Jail break events of Bannu and Dera Ismail khan needs to be mentioned here. Many high value criminals like Adnan Rasheed of Tehrek Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were arrested in those jails. The judicial system was in halt considering how to treat these criminals due to abeyance of Death penalty. But the terrorist did not stop they attacked the jail killed many policeman and nearly 700 criminal fled from the jail. The event smudged the justice system of Pakistan and the morale of our security forces deeply shattered.

Sanity demands immediate restoration of Death sentence in Pakistan. If the trial system of country is bad it should be improved instead of aborting Death punishment. Also courts need to be extra judicious and cautious when ordering this punishment.

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