President Mamnoon Hussain on Wednesday rejected mercy appeals of 18 prisoners on death row, paving way for their execution.
The death warrants for the condemned prisoners are likely to be issued at any time today after the President has rejected their mercy appeals.
Earlier today, authorities hanged a man convicted of attempting to assassinate former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, the seventh execution since government lifted a moratorium on capital punishment after Peshawar attack.
“Niaz Mohammad, 40, was executed today and his body was handed over to relatives,” an official at Peshawar’s high-security Central Jail told AFP.
Mohammad was convicted of attacking Musharraf in Rawalpindi.
The attack, which took place in December 2003, involved a powerful explosion targeting the former president’s motorcade as it was passing over a bridge in Rawalpindi.
The motorcade escaped the explosion by a matter of seconds, however, and no one was injured.
