Pakistan: Further information on imminent Execution / Unfair trial: Mirza Tahir Hussain (m)

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Index Number: ASA 33/043/2006
Date Published: 19 October 2006
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, Pakistan

President Musharraf has issued a two-month stay of execution for Mirza Tahir Hussain. He had been scheduled to be hanged on 1 November for the murder of taxi driver Jamshid Khan in 1988. Mirza Tahir Hussain will not now be executed until at least 31 December.