GUJRANWALA/MIANWALI: Four death row prisoners were hanged in Gujranwala and Mianwali on Wednesday morning.

Condemned prisoner, Waqar, was hanged in Central Jail Gujranwala. He was convicted for the 2002 murder of five people, including three children and a woman.

The execution of another death row prisoner, Anwar Ali, was suspended in Gujranwala after an agreement was reached with the complainant party. He was found guilty of a dual murder that took place in 2002.

Three death row prisoners were hanged in Central Jail Mianwali. Relatives Amaanullah Khan, Muhammad Riaz Khan and Muhammad Mumtaz Khan were convicted for a triple murder that took place in 2006.

The hanging of another triple murder convict, Amaanullah, was also postponed as his appeal is still pending in the Supreme Court.

Thus far the number of hangings for the month of August 2015 stands at five.

The execution of convicted prisoners had been suspended for a month by the federal government prior to the commencement of Ramazan. However, hangings resumed after Eidul Fitr.

Earlier, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had partially lifted the moratorium in the wake of the Taliban attack on Peshawar’s Army Public School in December last year.

The United Nations, the European Union, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have called on Pakistan to re-impose its moratorium on the death penalty.

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