Karachi: At least five murder convicts were hanged early Wednesday at different jails across Pakistan.
The latest hangings took place at jails in Sahiwal, Mianwali Bahawalpur and Sukkur.
Two executions were also halted in jails in Sahiwal and Mianwali after they were pardoned by the victims’ families.
Shahbaz, convicted of murdering another man in a land dispute in 1998, was taken to the gallows at the Sahiwal Central Jail early morning.
The execution of another death row prisoner in Sahiwal was halted at the request of the plaintiffs. Jaffar was convicted of murdering his friend’s brother and sister-in-law in 1997.
Two death row prisoners were hanged at the Central Jail one in Sukkur. Convict Jalal Morejo was sentenced to death for murdering his cousin in 1997, while Abdul Razzaq Chauhan was convicted of committing murder in 2001.
Ghulam Yaseen was hanged at the New Central Jail in Bahawalpur. He was convicted of murdering a woman in 2001.
Sentenced for committing murder in 200, convict Mohammad Khan was hanged at the Mianwali central Jail.
Meanwhile, a sessions court judge in Mianwali halted the execution of another death row prisoner, Hab Dar Hussain, at the request of the plaintiffs. Hussain had killed two men in the year 2000 over a long-running personal feud.
After these execution the raising the total number of criminals executed since December to 60.
