Death Penalties - FB Debate

DEATH PENALTIES - A FACEBOOK DEBATE:

Following post on Facebook recently yielded the debate below:

As demanded by many conscientious individuals and groups in Pakistan, the government has finally decided to carry out death penalties against terrorists in prisons who were sentenced by courts. Zaid Hamid Sahab has been most vocal about giving death penalties to terrorists since much earlier but certain secular liberal groups in Pakistan have been opposing death penalty to follow the trends in the West and to please their masters in the imperial countries. We have put Qur'anic teachings behind and we are facing the consequences now.

- S Roman Ahsan.

A US RESIDENT: Roman, that's a misconception and confusion spread intentionally by Zardari and nawaz. They were directly threatened by shahid Ullah shahid by fax that their families will be targeted directly if they carried out the death penalty. Rehman came up with this lie that the western countries are forcing them not to put anyone to death. Once again they put their own families above the nation.

ROMAN: That might be but perhaps you are not aware that some NGOs and other groups in Pakistan have been advocating the trends in the West without considering our own heritage. This includes some of our newspapers like DAWN and THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE as well (though their overall "presentation" quality is great).

A US RESIDENT: Once again, I reiterate,we need to fix our internal problems first before we play the victim of outsiders card. We have criminals amongst us, let's clean our house so the "evil" west can't harm us.

ROMAN: I agree and I assure you that the NGOs and media groups are part of "internal problems" because of "aligning themselves" with the "international criminals". They have power and influence, and they are preaching to the influential class of people in Pakistan. We should have reforms for the Madressahs also and I have penned down some concerns. But not the way certain groups here want them.