ISLAMABAD (PTI): Pakistan Supreme Court has upheld a presidential order to grant Amnesty to all those sentenced to death up to December 6,1988, and their punishment be commuted to life imprisonment,
In its 18-page Judgement on a number of appeals and petitions, a five-judge full bench, headed by justice Shafiur Rahman, held on August 30 that the initial departmental construction of the Amnesty order of 1988 “it was in accordance with law, legal and Proper.”
The apex court disposed of more than 25 appeals regarding commutation of death sentence by President, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, on the advice of the then prime minister, Benazir Bhutto.
It ruled that “the Amnesty benefitted all those who had been convicted and sentenced to death was by the sessions court while their sentence of death was waiting confirmation by the high Court or in appeal, further appeal _Or by way of mercy petition.”
Article extracted from this publication >> September 11, 1992
