New Delhi: Pakistan has put to death three Baloch insurgents, 17 years
after they hijacked a passenger plane with 30 people on board that they
then attempted to fly to India. The Pakistan International Airlines
flight was hijacked in 1998, with the hijackers ordering the pilot to
fly to India, but the plane was diverted and stormed by troops.
The men - Shabbir Rind, Shahsawar Baloch and Sabir Rind - were members of the left-wing Baloch Students' Organisation (BSO), and were executed at jails in Karachi and Hyderabad.
The three men were sentenced to death in 1998, but remained on death row for almost two decades. Pakistan had placed a moratorium on the death penalty -- which it lifted following a brutal Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan led attack on an army run school in Peshawar in December last year.
Since then, Pakistan has put to death at least 130 people. Four other men were put to death on Thursday, accused for crimes not connected to the hijacking. Over 8000 people remain on death row.
Read news in full 29/05/15 The Citizen
The men - Shabbir Rind, Shahsawar Baloch and Sabir Rind - were members of the left-wing Baloch Students' Organisation (BSO), and were executed at jails in Karachi and Hyderabad.
The three men were sentenced to death in 1998, but remained on death row for almost two decades. Pakistan had placed a moratorium on the death penalty -- which it lifted following a brutal Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan led attack on an army run school in Peshawar in December last year.
Since then, Pakistan has put to death at least 130 people. Four other men were put to death on Thursday, accused for crimes not connected to the hijacking. Over 8000 people remain on death row.
Read news in full 29/05/15 The Citizen
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