Hello folks, I've had a bit of an absence, for various reasons, like getting a new computer and getting a new broadband supplier, so have not had time to actually do anything on the computer apart from setting it all up, sorting out teething problems, etc.

My comment today, is about something that has stuck in my mind the most. That man who has been on death row in Pakistan for eighteen months is now back home, after his death sentence was lifted. I felt happy that this happened, it shows that someone in this world has some compassion at least. Having said that, he did do something very wrong. He killed a taxi driver and he has always maintained that it was in self defence. A court of appeal overturned the death sentence but then he was put back on death row because what he did was still a hanging offence under Sharia law. I don't know much about Sharia law except that i think it is very harsh to hang someone after he has been officially cleared of murder. I followed the case fairly closely, and I felt really happy when it was decided that he should be released. He has already suffered enough as punishment, having lived for 18 years with the prospect of a rope looming.

David