LAHORE: The unofficial demise penalty moratorium that was in place over the last Pakistan Individuals’s Occasion authorities was lifted in December 2014. Since then, 477 prisoners have been executed on the astonishing price of 4 per week.
Regardless of knowledge displaying that the demise penalty doesn’t result in a lower in crime, executions proceed unabated in Pakistan.
To commemorate the World Day Towards the Demise Penalty, which falls on October 10, the Lahore-based Justice Mission Pakistan, in collaboration with the Azad Theatre and Spotlight Arts has launched a singular undertaking titled, Bus Kar Do.
The initiative will embody a week-long bus tour by means of a number of cities of Punjab and Sindh.
As soon as the bus arrives in a metropolis, the actors will journey to the guts of the area people and carry out the play “Intezar- The Wait.”
The play relies on actual life tales of prisoners ready on demise row, a few of whom have been executed by now.
In step with the worldwide theme of poverty and injustice, Bus Kar Do goals to carry extra consciousness surrounding the demise penalty’s systemic focusing on of the poor and the weak of the society.
The JPP may even arrange postcard cubicles the place onlookers can write to President Mamoon Hussain, asking for clemency for Abdul Basit, a paralyzed prisoner on demise row for a decade, who has twice come inside seconds of being executed.
