PAKISTANI CHURCH AGAINST DEATH PENALTY FOR CYBER TERRORISTS

the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) of the Catholic Church, together with the independent group Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), disapprove of the order signed by Pakistani President Zardari mandating the death penalty for cyber terrorists. The secretary of the NCJP, Peter Jacob, said: "We are surprised and shocked that the government added death penalty in cyber crimes ordinance. This is not the right way to stop the crimes. Severe punishments can not correct or mend our society. So, NCJP demands that death penalty should be immediately excluded from the list of punishments." "We are unable to understand the mentality and strategy of the government that what it wants to do. First they condemn death penalty and sign UN human rights instruments and then they impose death penalty without consulting the parliament." For the secretary of the NCJP, the imposition of the ordinance without discussion in the assembly is "illogical" and contradicts "the statements of the government about the supremacy of parliament."