Schizophrenic faces death

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top court has ruled that schizophrenia does not fall within its legal definition of mental disorders, clearing the way for the execution, as early as next week, of a mentally ill man. Doctors in 2012 certified Imdad Ali, 50, as a paranoid schizophrenic, after he was sentenced to death for the murder of a cleric in 2001. Rights group Reprieve said the verdict was “outrageous”.