ISLAMABAD:
Islamabad High Court (IHC) rejected Shafqat Hussain’s counsel’s plea on Monday to form a committee that would inquire into his age, reported local media sources.
Last week, IHC issued a stay order against his execution just a day before he was scheduled to be hanged.
The stay order had been granted on the grounds that the inquiry conducted by FIA to determine Hussain’s age was ‘illegal’, authorities stated.
Sources confirmed that the chance of further requests or pleas to stay his hanging were slim.
Hussain was arrested and sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court in 2004 for the kidnapping and murder of a seven-year-old boy in 2001 from an apartment building in Karachi where he was working as a guard. His execution has been delayed three times as confusion over whether he was a juvenile when convicted or not remains unclear, according to sources.
