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"Madam President, all of us in this House share the profound shock and revulsion at the horrendous attack on the army public school in Peshawar. It is the latest and bloodiest attack on schools in Pakistan, and there have been over 800 of those attacks since 2009.
There is quite a high level of illiteracy still in Pakistan, and education is valued by many. Therefore, an attack on education is actually an attack on the country’s future. I think we can understand, too, the anger of the people and the desire of the government to be seen to take strong action against those committing terrorist offences. Nevertheless, the resolution reflects the fact that all of us, I think, regret the lifting of the moratorium on the death penalty in Pakistan.
The resolution has no number for those recently executed: it is now up to 19, as of this morning. The EU has a principled position on the death penalty, and we have expressed this in meetings in Pakistan and in other countries of the world. I chair the delegation for this House to the countries of South Asia, which includes Pakistan, and I have raised this issue when we have been there.
I find myself particularly uneasy about a number of the convictions of those currently being executed. Some of those date from the times of the military regime, with allegations of confessions under torture and the use of military courts which do not have a full system of justice. Such convictions do not meet the standards of justice to which Pakistan is now committed under a number of human rights instruments which it signed up to and which are now linked to its Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) Plus status.
However, there is much to be welcomed in terms of the government’s move on education – universal and inclusive education for all children in Pakistan. There are a number of other things to welcome, which we point out in this resolution."@en1
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