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World Service,2 mins

What to ask an executioner?

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After a seven year moratorium on the death penalty came to an end in Pakistan in December last year, more than 200 people have been executed. Sabir Massih comes from a long line of executioners, a family member hanged Pakistan's first elected prime minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in 1979. The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s correspondent in Pakistan, Shaimaa Khalil explains what it was like to interview someone who executes people for a living.

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