Court stays execution of mentally-ill convict

-The District and Sessions Court on Saturday stayed the execution of a mentally ill convict till July 30. A law firm Justice Project Pakistan, represented the case of condemned Khizar Hayat on behalf his mother, Iqbal Bano. The convict's counsel told the court on Saturday that the jail authorities in 2008 had diagnosed that Hayat had been suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. He was a police constable and arrested for killing a fellow policeman.
The Shadbagh Police then arrested him in October 2001 and a trial court gave him a death sentence in 2003. The counsel also said Hayat's insanity was well documented and that the jail's own records admitted "severe psychosis". She said the government still planned to hang him. The stay order came after the court hears the petitioner's counsel.