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Pakistani relatives mourn beside an ambulance carrying the body of convicted murderer Muhammad Faisal after his execution in Karachi on March 17, 2015. (AFP Photo/Rizwan Tabassum)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 17, 2015 | World
Islamabad, Reuters—Pakistan hanged 12 male convicts on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry spokesman said, the largest number of people executed on the same day since an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in December. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lifted a...
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The parents of Arab-Israeli Muhammad Musallam (portrait) react to news of his death at the family’s home in East Jerusalem on March 10, 2015. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)
by Diana Moukalled | Mar 17, 2015 | Opinion
His face was smooth, the signs of imminent manhood yet to appear on his unblemished features, just like any other boy of his age. Even his eyes, which he had tried to empty of any sign of feeling, betrayed a childlike innocence, one squarely at odds with the barbaric...
