RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: Four more death row convicts were hanged till death in different
jails of Punjab on early Tuesday.
A condemned prisoner Muhammad Ameen was executed in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail for killing a person on personal enmity while another prisoner Akram-ul-Haq was hanged in Attock Jail after he was found guilty of kidnapping a three-year-old girl.
The sources said that separate cases of kidnapping for ransom and terrorism were registered against Akram-ul-Haq in Fateh Jang police station.
Similarly, death row prisoner Hubdar Shah was hanged till death in Mianwali Central Jail for killing two persons in 2000 while prisoner Muhammad Riaz was executed in Sargodha Central Jail.
Riaz was sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi for killing a man in 2000 during a robbery.
With latest executions, a total of 65 convicts have been executed who include 51 in Punjab, 11 in Sindh, one in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 2 in Azad Kashmir since December 17 last year when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lifted a six-year moratorium on the death penalty.
