Abdul Basit, 44, who has no movement from the waist down, has had his execution halted at the last minute three separate times in the past year, ...

Malik Abdul Basit, a rapper, singer and founding member of The Roots, has died, according to a statement posted on the group’s verified Twitter account. He was 47.

Abdul Basit’s execution had been scheduled for Wednesday but Ahmad Nadeem, the chief of the prison in Faisalabad, said he received the order from the Pakistani presidency just hours before.

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Adult film star Johnny Sins thanked former Pakistani High Commissioner to India, Abdul Basit, for new Twitter followers after Mr Basit recently made an embarrassing goof-up and re-tweeted a ...

Abdul Basit, 43, is paralysed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair after becoming ill in prison. Pakistan reintroduced the death penalty in December 2014 and has hanged 239 people since.