Religious groups condemn Afzal Guru’s execution
Protesters demand that the country reciprocate by hanging Indian national and death row prisoner Sarabjeet Singh.
Mohammad Afzal Guru. PHOTO: AFP
HYDERABAD:
Following the execution of Afzal Guru by the Indian government on Saturday, religious groups in Pakistan have demanded that the country reciprocate by hanging Indian national and death row prisoner Sarabjeet Singh.
Activists of Jamatud Dawa and Tehreek-e-Azadi Kashmir (TAK) protested on Sunday and offered a symbolic Namaz-e-Janaza for Guru. TAK chairperson Hafiz Saifullah Mansoor accused the Pakistani government of inaction, while its Indian counterpart was “killing Kashmiri leaders who were leading a peaceful independence movement”.
Singh, a death row prisoner who was accused of masterminding a series of bomb blasts in Multan, Lahore and Faisalabad in 1990 that killed 14 people, has filed multiple mercy petitions with Pakistani authorities. The last of those petitions was filed in November 2012.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 11th, 2013.
Following the execution of Afzal Guru by the Indian government on Saturday, religious groups in Pakistan have demanded that the country reciprocate by hanging Indian national and death row prisoner Sarabjeet Singh.
Activists of Jamatud Dawa and Tehreek-e-Azadi Kashmir (TAK) protested on Sunday and offered a symbolic Namaz-e-Janaza for Guru. TAK chairperson Hafiz Saifullah Mansoor accused the Pakistani government of inaction, while its Indian counterpart was “killing Kashmiri leaders who were leading a peaceful independence movement”.
Singh, a death row prisoner who was accused of masterminding a series of bomb blasts in Multan, Lahore and Faisalabad in 1990 that killed 14 people, has filed multiple mercy petitions with Pakistani authorities. The last of those petitions was filed in November 2012.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 11th, 2013.