June 13, 2007	Wednesday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 27, 1428

ATTOCK, June 12: Fate played different games with four condemned men on Tuesday as they waited in the death row of the Attock Jail to be hanged at dawn on Wednesday for their crimes.

Execution of one of them was suspended as a result of last minute reconciliation between the families of the convict and his victim and the execution of another one was stayed for 15 days to give time for similar reconciliation.

However, the unfortunate remaining two will hang at first light (daybreak) on Wednesday.

Javed Iqbal was set to be hanged for murdering Nighat Noreen in February 1999 in a family dispute. His mercy petition was rejected by the President.

But on Tuesday, the victim’s family agreed to settle for blood money and Taxila’s Additional Sessions Judge Abdul Rehman Awan ordered suspension of Iqbal’s hanging after his family deposited Rs200,000 in the court as part payment of the Rs1 million settlement.

Convict Amanat Ali, had killed Noor Ahmed in November 1995, got a 15-day reprieve from the President to allow their two families to try the same.

However, convicts Nawazish and Mohammad Nisar will hang as their fates appeared sealed. They were allowed their last meeting with their families on Tuesday.

Nawazish was sentenced to death for killing three persons in a loan dispute in July 1999 and Nisar for killing his mother, a sister and a brother in January 1999.