MADE FOR MINDS – Anne Sophie Brahdlin A new report by Amnesty International documents that governments executed more people last year than at any point in the past 25...

(DAWN – Editorial) It is depressing to note that the number of executions carried out since Peshawar’s Army Public School tragedy in December 2014 now stands at over 350....

DAWN – Rafiz Zakaria   IN the latest picture available of him, Abdul Basit lies on a hospital bed, his beard overgrown, and a small chalkboard on his chest...

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE – Yusra Jabeen   As Pakistanis, we have seen a lot of senseless violence, irrational killings and mass murders in the form of bomb blasts, over...

(PAKISTAN TODAY – Faraz Talat) Thou shall not kill… and now, a list of exceptions that rolls out like credits at the end of a major film. The state...

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE – Naveed Ahmad   Mumtaz Qadri was a cold-blooded assassin who shot at an unarmed citizen 27 times from close range in broad daylight. He wore...

THE NEWS – Editorial   Mumtaz Qadri, a former Elite Force commando who murdered former Punjab governor Salman Taseer, has been hanged. Taseer had been smeared in a campaign...

DAWN – Rafia Zakaria   Mumtaz Qadri was executed on Monday, Feb 29, 2016. The hanging took place at 4:30am at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, where Qadri had been...

(THE NATION – Marvi Sirmed) What would make one celebrate death? Who would support a murder “the execution” at the hand of a state? A democratic state killing people...

(DAWN – Editorial) There should be a reluctance to mention the two names together. One man, Salmaan Taseer, the late governor of Punjab, was a towering champion of human...