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To: lorne who wrote (3053)	12/28/2003 9:22:08 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 3959

Cor, that’s blinding! This is not a very Christmassy start to my column but apart from the seizure of Saddam on my mum’s 84th birthday (December 13th) the following story just made my day. A court in Pakistan sentenced a man to be blinded by acid after he carried out a similar attack on his fiancee. The court in the town of Bahawalpur, sentenced Mohammad Sajid under the Islamic Qisas law that matches crime and punishment. Sajid blinded and mutiliated his fiancee after her parents called off the couple’s engagement. Rights groups have criticised the sentence and observers say it is unlikely to be carried out. The judge passed the sentence in an anti-terrorism court using a law enforced in 1979 during the rule of the dictator General Zia ul-Haqu. The law allows for a like-for-like punishment unless clemency is agreed by the victim’s family. This is one sentence that gets my full endorsement and can you imagine if the same principle was imposed at Saddam’s trial? He’d be butchered, gassed, tortured and buried alive. And that’s just for starters! Sounds good to me. thepaper.net