Government made £5.6m donation to counter-narcotics operations in Pakistan despite capital convictionsThe UK taxpayer has given millions of pounds to succor Pakistan’s counter-narcotics force target and arrest drug traffickers,at least five of whom have been sentenced to death.
The revelation has raised questions about the UK’s commitment to opposing the death penalty in other countries. final year Sir Simon McDonald, permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office, and said that human rights no longer had the profile within his department that they had in the past.
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Source: theguardian.com