E A M E N D T H E A N T I - T E R R O R I S M A C T, 1 9 9 7 Whilst the Government of Pakistan has alleged in its initial reports under the ICCPR, that the Superior Courts hold the power to admit post-conviction reviews on the basis of exonerating evidence regarding innocence or juvenility, the Courts have repeatedly refused to reopen these proceedings on account of their being out of time. The Government of Pakistan needs to ensure that an institutional remedy – executive or judicial – available for accused persons in whose cases new evidence that could serve as a basis to mitigate his sentence is discovered. F I M P L E M E N TAT I O N O F T H E P R E S I D E N T I A L N OT I F I C AT I O N The Government of Pakistan should ensure that the Presidential Notification No. F.8/41/2001-Ptns dated 13 December 2001 is given full effect. As under the Notification, the provincial home departments should ensure that requests for juvenility inquiries for all juveniles sentenced prior to the enactment of the JJSO are forwarded to respective courts. The Courts should undertake such inquiries in accordance with age determination procedures that comply with international standards outline above. Sentences of those adjudged to be juvenile offenders should be commuted automatically without the need to resubmit a mercy petition under Article 45 of the Constitution of Pakistan. 37 DEATH ROW’S CHILDREN