Ashrafuddin Pirzada
LANDIKOTAL: Family members of the sixty year old Pakistani,
who was allegedly arrested along with narcotics in Iran some nine months ago, have
appealed Iranian government for converting death sentence into life imprisonment.
Accompanied by several family members including wife and
children of Kalimuddin, 60, were waiting outside of the Iranian consulate in
Peshawar on Thursday to meet the officials for mercy.
Sur Gul, brother of
Kalimuddin told The News that his brother was trapped nine months ago Zahidaan
city of Iran when he was returning from his home in Landikotal to his private
job in Tehran city.
“His brother was not involved in heroin smuggling but a man
from their village, who escaped from his village and now residing in Tirah
valley, handed him a suitcase for his friend in Tehran in which he had packed 250
grams heroin,” Sur Gul said. He said that his brother was working there a
watchman in a factory in Tehran city of Iran for the last several years.
He said that they
were poor but had never used illegal means for earning black money.
Sur Gul, along with the wife and children of Kalimuddin, formally
logged a mercy application for his brother at foreign affairs office in
Peshawar and with the Iranian consulate.
Wife of Kalimuddin, (M) who was setting at the front of Iranian
consulate along with her children told this scribe in a screaming voice that
she had five children who were not able to look after their family. She appealed
the Presidents of Iran and Pakistan and MNA Noorul Haq Qadri for the mercy of
her husband. It may be added here that more than ten tribals have been hanged
in Iran during the last five years and dozens others languishing.
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