"MUSHARRAF MUST HEAR MIRZA-TAHIR'S PLEA" - MULHOLLAND
October 6, 2006 12:00 AM
Mirza-Tahir Hussain, the Leeds man on death-row in Pakistan, has made a personal plea to both President Musharraf of Pakistan, and Tony Blair, asking for his life to be spared.
The Times newspaper, today published a interview with Mirza-Tahir, secretly recorded from the Rawalpindi Central Jail in Pakistan where he is awaiting execution by hanging.
In the interview, Mirza-Tahir explained that he was suffering psychologically with the uncertainty of his future, and pleaded with President Musharraf to use his constitutional powers to set him free. Mirza-Tahir also called on Tony Blair to intervene saying:
"I appeal to [Prime Minister] Tony Blair to raise my case most emphatically with President Musharraf and press for my immediate release. I hope President Musharraf will be obliged to do this and set me free.
"I feel I am on a life-support machine, I'm looking forward to ending this whole thing one way or another. Mentally one reaches a state that we need some decisions."
Greg Mulholland, the Hussain's family MP said: "We can only hope that Mirza-Tahir's heartbreaking plea will finally move President Musharraf and the Pakistani Authorities to act to spare his life.
"Myself and others will not stop campaigning for Mirza-Tahir, but time fast running out to prevent this barbaric miscarriage of justice from being carried out. His life is in the balance, and unless urgent action is taken he will be executed in just a few weeks time".
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