It’s not an interview a journalist gets to do every day — with an executioner. The BBC’s Shaimaa Khalil got that chance when she sat down with Sabir Massih, 32, who’s hanged nearly 50 people since Pakistan reinstated the death penalty. He tells Khalil what goes through his mind when he pulls the lever.
Last week, police in Afghanistan detained a young girl they found wearing an explosive-packed suicide vest near a police checkpoint. Now, she has told her story to a BBC correspondent and says she would rather die than return home to the family that forced her to be a suicide bomber.