DEATH PENALTY IN PAKISTAN

Motion Text

That this House notes with concern that a man arrested by Pakistani authorities as Manjit Singh has been sentenced to be executed at the end of April 2008; notes that the man's family claim he is a victim of mistaken identity, and that his name is Sarabjit Singh; further notes that he was arrested in 1990 on charges of having worked for Indian intelligence, but has since been convicted of involvement in lethal bomb attacks in 1990; and calls on the Prime Minister both to make representations to the President of Pakistan to use his powers under Article 45 of the Constitution to commute the death sentence, and further to encourage Pakistan to abolish the death penalty.