ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Interior and Narcotic Control Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan informed the upper house on Wednesday that there was no proposal under consideration of the government to convert the death sentence into life imprisonment.
Responding to a question, the minister said a total of 13,223 death penalties were announced across the country since 2002, of which, 501 were consummated.
He said a total of 6149 terrorists had been arrested by the law enforcing agencies since year 2002.
The minister said 12,404 persons were killed while 26,881 injured in different terrorism incidents during the same period across the country.
Nisar said a national policy on missing persons was being formulated by the government while a task force in this regard had also been formed.
Five meetings of the task force had already been held and its final report once completed would be presented before both the upper and lower houses, he added.
To another question, Ch. Nisar informed the house that 413 incidents of terrorism including suicide attacks took place in the country since June this year.
He said it was the duty of the provincial governments to maintain law and order in their respective provinces, however, the federal government was providing all out assistance to the said governments to curb the menace of terrorism.
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