Pakistan to execute death-row convict

A Pakistani court today ordered to execute on May 6 a man, whose conviction over a murder provoked international anger after his lawyers alleged that he was only 13-years old at the time of crime.
Execution of Shafqat Hussain, convicted for killing a boy, was fixed for last month but had to be postponed after civil society raised fury that he cannot be hanged as he was a minor at the time of the crime.
The government had tasked Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), which after an inquiry, said that the convict was 23 when he committed the murder, after which an anti-terrorism court (ATC) here issued a death warrant to execute Hussain on May 6.

Hussain was arrested and sentenced to death in 2004 for kidnapping and killing a seven-year-old boy from an apartment building in Karachi where he worked as a security guard.
He was to be executed on March 19 after Pakistan lifted a moratorium on death but members of the civil society contended that he was a juvenile at the time of the incident.
Under the juvenile laws, none can be hanged if the crime was committed before 18 years of age.
The convict belongs to a poor family in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and had gone to Karachi for work.