BRITAIN must end its “aid for executions” to Pakistan after the country brought back the death penalty, legal action charity Reprieve demanded yesterday.

The government recently defended its estimated £130 million yearly anti-narcotics aid programme on what the charity claimed was the mistaken understanding that Pakistan would not resume hangings.

On December 11, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg wrote to Reprieve, which assists some death row prisoners in Pakistan, saying “it is clear that a de facto moratorium (on the death penalty) remains the policy of the Pakistani government.”