Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Idea Of The Day -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (42543)	5/7/2002 4:09:22 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Musharraf rejected mercy petitions and acts tough.. Two Afghans were hanged in a Pakistani jail Tuesday for the murder of three people including a leading Afghan women's rights activist, officials said. Ahmad Sultan and Hamayun Zikria were convicted of murdering Laila Shireen, the head of the Revolutionary Association for the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), and two of her associates in 1987. They were executed at a prison in Muchh in southwestern Baluchistan province early Tuesday after President Pervez Musharraf rejected their mercy petitions, officials said. Afghan Consul Habibullah Allahyar received the bodies and dispatched them to Kabul for burial in their hometown, jail officials said. Afghan sources said Allahyar tried to persuade Laila's relatives, including her daughter Najeeba who now heads RAWA, to forgive the killers under Islamic law but they refused.