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| Pakistan executes Shafqat Hussain | Pakistan executes Shafqat Hussain |
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| Pakistan has executed Shafqat Hussain, convicted of killing a child in 2004, despite appeals from international human rights groups. | |
| His lawyers say he was 14 when found guilty and his confession was extracted by torture, but officials say there is no proof he was a minor when convicted. | |
| He was hanged shortly before dawn at a jail in Karachi and allowed to meet his family one last time before midnight. | |
| Legal challenges saw his execution postponed four times this year. | |
| But despite the postponements, legal challenges and intense lobbying, all his appeals for mercy were ultimately turned down. | |
| The Pakistani government scrapped a moratorium on capital punishment in the aftermath of an attack on a school in Peshawar in December last years in which more than 150 school pupils and teachers were killed by the Taliban. | |
| Since then, authorities have hanged at least 193 convicts in jails across the country. | |
| Pakistan has the world's largest number of death row inmates, with more than 8,000 people reported to be awaiting execution. |