LAHORE: Six death row prisoners were executed in different jails of Punjab early on Wednesday while the execution of two others was postponed for an indefinite period.

Two death row prisoners were executed at the Kot Lakhpat Central Jail.

The jail authorities had received death warrants for Abdul Khaliq and Shahzad after their mercy pleas were rejected by the superior judiciary and the president. The last meetings of convicts were arranged before their execution.

Khaliq had killed a woman in the Factory Area while Shahzad was sentenced to death for murdering a man.

The jail authorities handed over the bodies to their respective families under tight security.

VEHARI: Two prisoners were executed in the district jail.

Convict Abdul Sattar had killed a 13-year old girl after subjecting her to rape in 1997 in Lahore.

Another death row prisoner Sanaullah had murdered a 12-year-old boy after rape in Burewala in 2006.

The bodies were handed over to their respective families.

GUJRAT: Two murder convicts in separate cases were hanged to death at the Gujrat district jail on Wednesday.

Naseer Ahmed of Hassam village had killed his friend in March 2002 and an additional district and sessions judge of Kharian had awarded him death sentence on March 6, 2003.

Faisal Gujjar had been booked in a murder case by the Lalamusa police on Jan 25, 1999, and was convicted by an additional district and sessions judge, Gujrat, on March 26, 2000.

The jail authorities handed over the bodies to their heirs.

BAHAWALPUR: The execution of two convicts of Rahim Yar Khan was postponed for an indefinite period.

Muhammad Aslam was to be hanged on Wednesday while Zulfiqar Ahmed on Thursday.

Intizar Wali Khan, the superintendent of New Central Jail, Bahawalpur, said that hangings were postponed on the orders of district and sessions judge Rana Masood Akhtar.

He said negotiations for a compromise/pardon were going on between the families of convicts and deceased persons.

Published in Dawn, May 28th, 2015

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