Move comes after UK declar­es not to sign 'politi­cally-motiva­ted' extrad­ition treati­es with any countr­yKARACHI: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday said Pakistan was going to revoke the capital punishment for the accused to be extradited from other countries. “We are amending the penal code of Pakistan to revoke the capital punishment for the accused to be brought back to the country under extradition treaties with other countries”, Qureshi told reporters in the capital Islamabad. Pakistan lifted a de-facto ban on capital punishment in December 2014 following a gruesome militant attack on an army-run school in Peshawar, which killed over 140 people, mostly students. Afghan president to visit Pakistan next weekQureshi also told reporters that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani would visit Pakistan on June 27 on the invitation of Premier Imran Khan to hold talks on different issues, including the ongoing peace process in the war-racked country. Diplomatic ties between the two neighbours remained frosty in recent years with both accusing each other of patronizing and using militants against each other.

Source: The Express Tribune June 20, 2019 15:44 UTC