RAWALPINDI: Three, including two brothers, convicted in non-terrorism cases were executed at Adiala Central Jail on Thursday at dawn.

Nine others have been hanged at Adiala since the moratorium on the death penalty was lifted by the government.

Brothers Asghar Ali and Ghulam Hussain were convicted for murdering two relatives in 1996 in the Jatli area of Gujar Khan. The third convict Gulistan Khan was convicted for a murder in Kalar Syedan in 1998.

According to security sources, eleven convicts were to be hanged at the central jail at Adiala, the second phase of executions currently being carried out. However, the execution of one of the convicts Qadeer Ahmed was halted after a reconciliation agreement between the convict and the heirs of the victim.

One more execution will be carried out after March 25.

Published in Dawn March 20th, 2015

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