ISLAMABAD – Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Asif Saeed Khosa on Mondayhinted at changing meaning for life imprisonment.
CJP interpreted that the life sentence does not imply a 25-yearimprisonment, instead it meant life imprisonment.
He remarked that he would further explain the meaning of life sentence atan appropriate time.
“After that, convicts will prefer a death sentence instead of lifeimprisonment,” he said, while maintaining the earlier ruling of the courtof giving a death sentence to a convict in a murder case.
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“If this is the case, then we would see who commits murder,” he went on tosay, while referring to judicial practice in India that there lifesentences are given with period of imprisonment.
