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Save Shafqat, Save Pakistan’s Judicial System – Editorial

It is a shame that our col­lec­tive sense of jus­tice hard­ly goes beyond a fran­tic demand for vengeance. Since gov­ern­ment announced lift­ing of mora­to­ri­um on death penal­ty last Decem­ber, 39 con­victs have been exe­cut­ed in dif­fer­ent jails in Pak­istan. Ini­tial­ly it was announced that only hard-core ter­ror­ists will be hanged, but, as was fore­seen by […]