Pakistan faces global anger over bid to execute man jailed over killing aged 14.

Pakistan is prepairing to execute a man,named Shafqat Hussein, convicted over a murder committed when he was 14,in a move likely to provoke a storm of international anger

  Hussein has been on death row for 10 years.The hanging would be the second to follow a lifting last week of Pakistan's moratoriumon executions for crimes other than terrorist offences.A moratorium on the execution of terroristswas discarded in December after Taliban gunmen killed 150 people at a school in Peshawar.

Hussain, from the poor Neelam valley, went to Karachi aged 13 to join his brother, Manzoor, and work as a caretaker. He was arrested a year later, after the disappearance of a tenant in the building following a dispute and, said Belal, illegally held, bound, blindfolded and beaten. After nine days of torture, Hussain signed a confession and was tried, for reasons unknown, in a special anti-terrorist court where an appointed lawyer failed to ascertain his age or produce any defence witnesses.

Hussain was sentenced to death in 2004 and lost an appeal in 2007. The sentence is now back in force after the 12 March announcement lifting death row moratoriums for all crimes, a move condemned by Human Rights Watch as an “ill-conceived decision” opening the way for “an execution spree”. Pakistan has more than 8,000 prisoners on death row.

Shafqat’s brother Manzoor said: “We are very poor people and we cannot buy justice like the powerful. The government said he should not be hanged when the international community and media were paying attention, but now they are not concerned. The government is only interested in showing they are doing something about terrorism. But my brother is not a terrorist.”