ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain stopped on Tuesday implementation of the death sentence handed down to a paraplegic convict, Abdul Basit, for two months.

He also ordered an inquiry into the convict’s health.

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Basit was scheduled to be executed on Wednesday.

A press release quoted President Hussain as observing that standards of human rights should not be compromised at any cost.

Published in Dawn, November 25th, 2015