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Pakistan postpones hanging of disabled death row convict

Pakistan has postponed the execution of a paraplegic death row convict following appeals by human rights groups, officials said Tuesday.

Abdul Basit, 43, who was convicted of murder in 2009, contracted tubercular meningitis in 2010 while in prison which left him paralysed from the waist down, according to rights groups and jail officials.

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