British parliamentarians have asked Pakistan to spare the life of a British national due to be hanged for murder on June 3, officials told Reuters on Wednesday.
Mirza Tahir Hussain, from Leeds in northern England and of Pakistani descent, was arrested in Rawalpindi in 1988 on charges of murdering and robbing a taxi driver, who had reportedly tried to physically and sexually assault him. "Our High Commission in London has received some letters from NGOs and parliamentarians," Tasnim Aslam, spokeswoman for Foreign Office told Reuters.
Diplomatic sources said the British government is expected to request President Pervez Musharraf to commute Hussain's death sentence. Musharraf turned down an appeal for mercy from Hussain last year, she said.
Imprisoned since the age of 18, Hussain is due to be executed two days before his 36th birthday.
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