What Is #NoTimeToSleep? And Who Was Zulfiqar Ali Khan?

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What Is NoTimeToSleep? And Who Was Zulfiqar Ali
Khan?
By Dailypunch.pk
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Who Was Zulfiqar Ali Khan?
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NoTimeToSleep

• October 10th, World Day Against the Death Penalty
  and in regard to that JPP has come up with the
  idea of NoTimeToSleep. It is a project of
  Justice Project Pakistan which is in
  collaboration with Highlight Arts and Olomopolo
  media to portray the 24 hours of a prisoner
  before the execution. Sarmad Khoosat is playing
  the role of a prisoner and the transmission is
  going live for 24 hours without any break.

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• Is basically the time that a prisoner has to face
  before his execution. The time that is slow but
  fast at the same time.
• The play is roughly based on a true story of a
  prisoner Zulfiqar Ali Khan. Zulfiqar was a
  Pakistan Naval officer who held up in an armed
  robbery back in 1998. As an officer, he had a gun
  with him and he shot two of the robbers in
  self-defense.
• Zulfiqar couldnt afford a lawyer and
  then represented by a court-appointed defense
  attorney at his trial. The lawyer kept asking for
  additional money and on refusal, he never heard
  Zulfiqars side of the story and never made an
  effort to gather evidence. Falsified witness
  statements were recorded and went unchallenged.
  As Zulfiqar wasnt able to afford any other
  lawyer or resource, he ended up with the
  sentenced to death by an Anti-Terrorism Court
  Rawalpindi.

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• On a death row, Zulfiqar spent 16 years in prison
  educating the prisoners. He rehabilitated and
  educated more than 400 prisoners. Many of them
  made to universities and got degrees. While 24
  graduated and 51 passed matriculation.
• His students wrote letters to stop his execution
  but no one heard. One black warrant of execution
  released on March 24 2015  by the anti-terrorism
  court. But somehow got delayed. But another black
  warrant released soon after this
• And unfortunately, Zulfiqar executed on 6th May
  2015. Soon after his sentence, his wife died of
  leukemia.
• A remarkable and uninterrupted 24hr performance
  currently ongoing, where the actor is showing the
  time period of a Pakistani death row prisoners
  last 24hrs before being executed.