PESHAWAR: Pakistan Psychiatry Society and Pakistan Medical Association on Monday appealed to President Mamnoon Hussain to halt the execution of death sentence of Imdad Ali, who is scheduled to be executed tomorrow (Wednesday).

Speaking at a joint press conference at the Peshawar Press Club on Monday, Dr Syed Mohammad Sultan, Dr Mian Iftikhar Hussain and others told reporters that a psychiatrist board had declared the said criminal a patient of schizophrenia some 10 years ago.

They added that they had reverence for the court decisions but they wanted to give feed back in the case and would suggest formation of another psychiatrist board for Imdad Ali, whose decision should be considered before the man’s execution. They said Imdad had been arrested in a murder case in 2001 and court had awarded him death sentence in 2012.

The doctors appealed to the president of Pakistan to stop the death sentence on humanitarian grounds.

Published in Dawn, October 25th, 2016