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FIGURE 2: TOTAL NUMBER OF PRISONERS TRIED AS TERRORISTS VS. PRISONERS
TRIED IN ORDINARY COURTS ON DEATH ROW IN PAKISTAN
This second table compares the number of death row prisoners in each province who
were tried as terrorists with the number of death row prisoners in that province who
were tried in ordinary courts.
Prisoners tried as terrorists
(% of province total)
Prisoners tried in ordinary
courts (% of province total)
TOTAL
Balochistan
26 (29.21%)
63 (70.79%)
89
KPK
20 (10.93%)
163 (89.07%)
183
Punjab
641 (10.22%)
5,628 (89.78%)
6,269
Sindh
131 (39.58%)
200 (60.42%)
331
TOTAL
818 (11.90%)
6,054 (88.10%)
6,872
Province
OVER ONE IN TEN OF THE PRISONERS ON DEATH ROW IN
PAKISTAN WERE TRIED AS TERRORISTS
IN
THE
PROVINCE
OF
NEARLY 40% OF THE
ROW WERE TRIED AS
SINDH,
PRISONERS ON DEATH
TERRORISTS - THIS IS OVER THREE TIMES THE NATIONAL
AVERAGE
TERROR ON DEATH ROW
THE ABUSE AND OVERUSE OF PAKISTAN’S ANTI-TERRORISM LEGISLATION