PESHAWAR/MANSEHRA: A condemned prisoner, Shamsul Islam, will be hanged early on Wednesday (today) here at the Peshawar Central Prison.

The prisoner, who was a prayer leader, had been charged with sexually molesting a boy and then killing him in Mardan district.

He was tried by the Mardan district and sessions judge and sentenced to death in 2009. Subsequently, his appeals were dismissed by the Peshawar High Court and Supreme Court.

His mercy petition was also turned down by the President.

This will be the second execution in the Peshawar prison since moratorium on the death penalty was lifted in the country after the tragic incident of Army Public School on Dec 16, 2014.

A prisoner convicted for attack on Gen Pervez Musharraf in Rawalpindi, Niaz Mohammad, was hanged to death on Dec 31, 2014.

DEATH WARRANT: District and sessions judge, Mansehra, Salahuddin has issued the death warrant of a condemned prisoner who had killed his friend in 2008 and later planned to blow up the central prison Karachi to escape along with a group of terrorists in 2004.

“Yes, we have received the black warrant of Khurram Malik who would be executed at the central jail in Haripur on May 28,” said Abdul Qayyum,

the superintended of district jail, Mansehra, on Tuesday.

Mr Qayyum also confirmed that family members of Malik would meet him in the jail on Wednesday (today).

Malik had slaughtered on Nov 24, 1998 his friend Ijaz Ahmad, a student of first year, after he came to know that a girl he liked had also an affair with Ahmad.

The killer after chopping off body of his friend had thrown its pieces in different parts of the district to hide his crime, but was arrested the next day.

Published in Dawn, May 27th, 2015

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