Dr Barad:Once again I request you to study the subject matter and come back to this forum.
Response: Ignoring the unwarranteed personal remarks, attacks and insinuations ill becoming of a person appending the word 'Dr' to his name, I wish to repeat my questions to Dr Barad. 1. Could you kindly inform us how many mercy petitions were pending before the President when the BJP took over in 1998. 2. How many mercy petitions were disposed off during 1998 to 2004, ie 6 years of BJP rule. 3. Mercy petitions of Nalini and Murugan, assassins of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi were pending since 1992. Did the BJP play any role in expediting these petitions? If you are able to answer these questions, you will find the answer to your question on Afzal Guru. Incidentally your pet hate object, Sonia Gandhi has shown great magnanimity in writing to the President to grant mercy to Nalini, the assassin of her husband, and the death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 2000. Another Gladys Staines forgave the killers of her husband and two minor children. Wish there were more people with humaneness around. The world would have been a better place for all of us. Regards, Marshall