The Pakistani cabinet has approved a plan to commute the sentences of thousands of prisoners on death row to life imprisonment, officials say.
The proposal, which must be endorsed by President Musharraf, is expected to benefit some 7,000 condemned prisoners.
Rights group Amnesty International said the move would reprieve about one-third of the world's death row population.
It is still not clear if inmates sentenced for drugs, terrorism or spying offences would also benefit. More...